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So this is my first time attending WWDC. Got any tips for a newbie? :)

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  • Anonymous
    August 03, 2006
    Yah, when his Steveness come's on stage, you must say, 'I am not worthy, I am not worthy, I promise to keep MacBU honest and not listen to that Ballmer guy...'
  • Anonymous
    August 03, 2006
    Get there early for the Keynote.

    When you see candy: stockpile, they don't have it out often enough. Same for drinks in the afternoons (if you want something other than coffee).

    If you want the brownbag lunches get to lunch early. If you want breakfast then you have to get there before the first session of the day (something I couldn't manage on any day but the Monday).

    Don't count on the wireless at WWDC. It's generally so overloaded that it's slow as... well, something really really slow. It's kind of usable for IRC, but that seemed about it for much of the day.
  • Anonymous
    August 03, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    August 03, 2006
    well, there's a WWDC section on http://www.unsanity.org/archives/rant/caring_for_developers.php and I think that's the main thing you have to worry about.

    hopefully the snacks will be better this year.

    And make sure you are early for the more popular new APIs/Feature sessions. They fill up fast.
  • Anonymous
    August 03, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    August 03, 2006
    superrcat -- I can't imagine what would make you think that I get access to the VIP floor.  I'm a worker-bee. :D
  • Anonymous
    August 03, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    August 03, 2006
    Funny you mention that.  I'm going up to Napa/Sonoma after WWDC, where I plan to do nothing other than sleep in and drink wine.  I might be convinced to get a couple of great meals (and I'm on the waiting list for a table at the French Laundry), but that's about all I'm planning.  Some people plan for a week on the beach with frilly umbrella drinks; this is my version.

    Of course, I don't have a 13-hour flight.  I just have an hour drive up to the city, so it's not like I have a great excuse.  But I'm pretending that I do.
  • Anonymous
    August 04, 2006
    Waiting list for French Laundry unfortunately gets you nowhere. I've done the same thing as you (Napa weekend after WWDC) 3 years running, and never managed it. Last year I not only tried booking the requisite 60 days in advance (couldn't get through, about 300 attempts) and phoned up 50 times during WWDC, but even turned up there on the day. No good. Go to La Toque as a fall-back : it's the next best, by a long way.

    I'm not going to WWDC rgis year: I just spent a fortune spending a month in London and can't afford it. I'll watch the delayed keynote. (And go to alocal restaurant: pretty good here in Santa Barbara. Wine too.)
  • Anonymous
    August 05, 2006
    I'm in Napa for a week, so I'm hoping that sometime in there, I'll be able to sneak in.  A girl can dream, right? :)
  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2006
    It's been my first time at WWDC, too (I was the guy with the Moose shirt sitting in the row behind you MacBU people at the Stevenote), so I blogged about my experiences and snuck in a few suggestions:

    http://zathras.de/angelweb/blog-wwdc2006-part1.htm

    There's more entries like that, see the Archive.
  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2006
    It's been my first time at WWDC, too (I was the guy with the Moose shirt sitting in the row behind you MacBU people at the Stevenote), so I blogged about my experiences and snuck in a few suggestions:

    http://zathras.de/angelweb/blog-wwdc2006-part1.htm

    There's more entries like that, see the Archive.