Musings from The Software Underground

I was at Apple's Boston Leopard Tech Talk yesterday, and I have to say, overall it's a nice nod from Apple to their 3rd party developers. Because I wasn't able to attend WWDC this year, a bunch of things were new to me. It's one thing to have the Leopard seeds, but it's another to figure out everything that is new on your own. The tech talks did a good job of filling me in on a bunch of new things I missed. The whole conference was under NDA, but I can say that Apple clearly REALLY wants us to write specifically for Leopard and I have to tell you, they are giving us many, many compelling reasons to do just that.

The tech talks are also a great opportunity to network and meet and put faces to people you know from blogs on the Mac web. I met Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater and Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba, someone I was surprised to find out was actually in Somerville, a long stone's throw from where I lived for many years. (BTW he's writing a really great piece right now on attending Macworld as a small company, and this is a must read for all of us thinking about/wanting to do this.)

Bravo Apple for doing this for us, and for free even.