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Meeting people is key @ WWDC

Jun 13, 2008 by Bill Dudney

Yesterday I was chatting with Mike and Jonathan when someone in a mic head set said, hey would you guys like to be on a pod cast. I, being the ham I am, jumped up and said Sure!

Turns out the guy in the head set was Lee Givens of the Mac@AOL Blog and the podcast was from MyMac. Fantastic time, I'm hoping to do more with these guys.

Then a little later in the day I ran into Dave Batton. I first ran into Dave way back about jan or feb of last year on his blog. Reading about 'living the life' in Italy was part of my inspiration to just dump the java world and make the jump. I finally meet him face to face @ the Boulder Cocoa Heads a few months ago. Very cool. He just released a new product that looks great, go check it out.

I had lunch with Scotty. Which was great fun to put a face with the guy on the other end of that skype connection. Scotty brought along Uli Kusterer and Craig. Both really interesting guys to hang out with. I'm esp interested in the design ideas that Craig had. Great to talk to people that have an aesthetic instinct, now to integrate that into my own thinking...

And I had a late coffee with Chris. Fantastic guy building some really cool new stuff.

How cool is that! What a blast to meet folks doing creative and fun stuff seemingly randomly. I love this show.

I also saw some amazingly fantastic demos of some really cool technology... But I can't say more (or probably even that) but as always its going to be a great ride over the next 18 months.



Comments:

I tried to find you during the show to chat about the Core Animation book, but finding an individual in the mass of attendees was nearly impossible. It turned out that the person who interviewed me for the podcast portion of my scientific poster was your editor. I can see why you enjoy working with him.

I agree with your assessment of the show. Just talking to people in line for sessions was great. I loved hearing the stories of both large and small developers. Also, I was amazed by how all of the Apple employees in the labs and sessions went out of their way to answer my questions or help me in any way possible.

Posted by Brad Larson on June 14, 2008 at 12:06 AM MDT #

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