2 August 2008 No Comment

**Stupid NDA. Can’t say shit.

Hour1: Awesomely small! We’re in a building right next to the Sear Tower! I’ve missed Chicago I guess. Ok. enough of the mooshy stuff.

We have a great breakfast of coffee, bagels and shmeer to feed our growing brains. We’re just settling in now.

Hour2: Dave Dribin on the Development Tools

- Great demo of basic coding using development tools by Dave Dribin. We went over the basic syntax and what tools to use. He developed a basic Apple application using the visual development tool in the kit. The app had a button!

Hour3: Keynote streaming straight from San Francisco.

- Longest freak’n sponsor opening ever… seriously.

-The audio sucks… can’t understand it. Watch all the feeds here.

-We stopped watching. Great!!!

The keynote over all sucked. Maybe someone there is writing a live blog about what the dudes are saying because we can’t hear. I started to browse Digg, that means its awful.

Time for food!

Hour4: Forum. Bitching time.

-Major problems with the NDA

Hour5: Ben Gottlieb (Crosswords, Stand Alond inc.) discussing iPhone development,

Thanks for the t-shirt!

- Sitting next to Chris Foresman of Ars Technica

- Honestly, can’t say anything…

- Nice presentation. Actually took some notes.

Hour6: Scott Corely (Acid Solitaire Collection, Red Mercury LLC) to discuss the App store

- Will prices and quality in iPhone apps change in 10 years?

- Self-claimed “Futurist”

- All speculation… only dreams come true (Walt Disney)

- Now debating the problem with rating and reviewing apps… Oh the problems…

Hour7: Chris Foresman is going to talk about the UI

- Good points. Design is key.

- All praise Twinkle!

Hour8: Brad Larson (Molecules, Sunset Lake Software)talks about OpenGL ES Programming

- Warning: Again thanks to NDA. I probably can’t say anything…

- This dude blew my mind with this graphic wizardry! This is like a book in 45 minutes… my brain hurts but a great job!

Awesome experience for the first day! Meet great people and learned alot, it was like class but fun and interesting. We’ll see about tomorrow!