Impressions thus far...

Having been to many many conferences (mostly java focused) I am impressed with WWDC. It is well organized and the speakers seem to be mostly good.

Of the 9 talks I've gone to so far and roughly 15 speakers (they do multiple speakers per preso at WWDC, different than typical java conf). I've seen two presenters read their slides, one was making me crazy cause he would talk long pauses as if to same something profound then he'd read the next bullet... But you get that kind of stuff everywhere (and I've done it to early on) so no complaints here.

So over all I like it. Something that strikes me though as the overall closed nature of Apple vs the Java community. At JavaOne they encourage you to blog everything, write about everything. At WWDC everything is Apple private, I'm not supposed to blog about anything. I don't like that but I guess I should have expected it. The food is bad but they provide juice and coffee almost all the time which is a nice touch.

I have really enjoyed catching up with some old friends and folks I knew back in the NeXT days. I ran into one of the Omni guys that I worked with way back at AT&T Wireless back in 93/94 and another guy I worked with back at Fannie Mae in 94/95.

Fun Stuff!