Monday, 2006-12-04; 01:43:00

• when Apple says "San Francisco", they actually mean "Burlingame"
• when the Embassy Suites say, "you can have the rooms 'til 6 PM as scheduled", they actually mean "oh, we'll just kick you out an hour ahead of time because we screwed up"
• Sal Soghoian: you are fucking hilarious
• adding AppleScript support is all about, quoting Soghoian, "$$$$$$$$$$$$" (may not reflect actual number of dollar signs in presentation slide)
• how to add AppleScript support to your application
• even developers who went to WWDC found the Tech Talk useful
• various anecdotes about the transition to Mac OS X for certain developers (including PGP and some scanning software)
• Apple is very serious about this whole resolution independence thang
• when you bring your code to an Apple developer conference on an iPod, remember to bring an iPod cable
• it's quite worth it to purchase new shoes so that your feet don't hurt just by standing up
• requesting spun-off threads to terminate from the main thread is difficult
• it kinda sucks when the free lunch doesn't have a vegetarian option, but I can deal with it
• Apple is doing some awesome, awesome things with Leopard
• the Mac evangelist team at Apple is a really amiable bunch of very knowledgeable people
• NDAs suck because I can't reveal cool things that are happening in Leopard, but I won't be the one to break it
• I have to figure out a really cool application that takes advantage of Leopard technologies, for undisclosed reasons
• remember to make sure the backlight on the 6-year-old laptop you're borrowing doesn't blink, and that the battery holds a charge longer than an hour
• that it would be nice if Caltrain had plugs so that you could charge your laptop's ailing battery
• that Apple really does look at bug reports filed in their radar system: the more bug reports filed for a certain enhancement request gives the evangelist team more ammo to push for its implementation
• free developer conferences, even if they last for just a day, rock
• that even though you never received a confirmation e-mail for the event after signing up, that you should just go and you'll end up having a great time anyway