A good session on the new Apple Remote Desktop this morning. The integration of VNC looks good and the optimizations are truly amazing compared with ARD 1.2. I also sat in on a session with more advanced details on CoreData.

I attended a really good session on WebObjects Deployment Optimization this afternoon with Max Muller and Bill Bummgarner. Judging by the number of attendees and the size of the croud clustered arround the presenters in the hall after their definately is still interest in WebObjects (and in the details of the iTunes MS deployment).

The Campus bash was this evening, Jimmy Eat World provided the musical entertainment. I had several good conversations, some decent food, and free beer. Can’t beat that

The CoreData and Cocoa Bindings stuff is looking more and more interesting. I’m thinking my first Cocoa app will have to be a CoreDate-EOF / EOF-CoreData dictionary (like English-French / French-English). The lineage is so obvious, only the names have been changed.

The WebObjects BOF didn’t really happen, but I did manage have to have dinner with some fello TO WebObjects folk so that was fun

An interesting day. The Automator, ACLs, and Xcode sessions were very informative, I’ll have to take a second and try Xcode 1.5 with WebObjects. Maybe after I deliver my current project.

Obviously the session that has received the most attention from the WebObjects community has been the WebObjects Overview. The news (or lack there of) has resulted in a serious flurry of The Sky Is Falling and Run Away! Run Away! posts in the WebObjects developer mailing lists. Personally I am not all that concerned. It is clear that WebObjects is not going away. It and its tools are not likely to be updated beyond bug fixes anytime soon, but then, it will get improvements aimed at Java in general (new Xcode 1.5 is a case in point).

Beyond that it was very nice to see Project Wonder, WOProject, and WOLips, all get mention and stage time. So even if Apple isn’t innovating WebO, others are

Some thoughts:

• 30 Inch Cinema Display: Mmm… Big.
• CoreImage/CoreVideo: Mmm… Yummy.
• ACL’s: Mmm… Needed.
• Automator: Mmm… Sal.
• Stinking Rose: Mmm… Garlic.

I can’t really say much else, everything else is under NDA. I’m attending the WebObjects Overview session this afternoon so I’m hoping there will be some news there. Not that I’m holding my breath or anything.

On another note, the iChat AV fails miserably from my hotel room, (Hilton SF). The proxy they use introduces at least 5 second delay that makes carrying on a conversation virtually impossible 🙁

Cool Cocoa early bird session today. James Dempsey’s afternoon session on Cocoa bindings was really quite nifty (no song though). It’s nice to see Cocoa getting some WebObjects goodness :-). I found Objective-C a bit of a departure from Java, for one thing I kept running out of square brackets. I thought I’d packed enough… Anyway, what I’d really like to see is Subjective-C, but maybe that’s just me…

I managed to pass out a few “Powered by WebObjects” tags (hey, grassroots start small) and swag this year includes another laptop bag, which, despite the rumors does fit a 17″ PowerBook (it just needs to be persuaded some).

I’m off to bed, up early tomorrow to get a decent seat for the keynote. I described the scenario to Al: The anxious huddled croud, the security guards, the mad dash up the escalator to get a seat… She laughed and said it sounded like the Running of the geeks 🙂