Monday, Jun 15, 2009 WWDC 09 Summary
The five-day long WWDC 2009 came to an end just this Friday. This is my first time of WWDC after the iPhone SDK launch. (skipped last year)
Think most people would agree that the Keynote lacks surprises. Snow Leopard and iPhone OS 3.0 are both announced before the conference. There’s new hardware but, yeah, I am not that keen on catching up the latest hardware…
The most useful part of the conference, to me, is the lab sessions. This is the only time of the year where you find have Apple engineers to talk to you for development issues you encountered.
I’ve got a NSString guy to help me sorting out a transliteration issue in Finger. A new feature in Finger depends on that.
I’ve also had Apple’s designer to give advice on the interface and user experience of Finger. This is the advice he hand sketched for me:
And I had a Safari guy giving me pointers to implement something new in my Clip It!.
The sessions this years are mostly boring… but it turns out to be the most fruitful WWDC to me :D:D
Embedding private framework in your iPhone app Headnix (Bill So) got interviewed by Hong Kong Milk Magazine