Apple's World Wide Developers Conference 2004 Starts Monday--Our Track
We attended last year and filed daily reports beginning with the keynote address. Steve Jobs presented Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" (currently at v10.3.4) and announced the impressive Power Mac G5 and iSight camera with iChat DV. Each attendee received a free iSight and a developer preview edition of Panther. Some of us had a great time using our iSights among ourselves at the WWDC--now we own several and use them to communicate daily with most of our business associates and members of our immediate family in other cities using either iChat AV or iVisit. Many loaded Panther on their PowerBooks at WWDC. The awesome Power Mac G5 was available to see and try. Will Steve Jobs announce any new Apple hardware this year? As usual, rumors are running rampant but we will have to wait until Monday to find out.
The WWDC 2004 sessions look terrific and we will attend Monday through Thursday. Many sessions are concurrent and we may switch but here is our initial session game plan:
Monday: Keynote, Mac OS X SotU; Enterprise IT SotU; Mac OS X Server Update; Exhibit Fair.
Tuesday: Apple & Scientific Computing; HPC Technology Update; Intro to Eclipse; Intro to Xcode; Modern Networking Using CFNetwork; Design Awards.
Wednesday: Spoken Interface; Xsan in Depth or HPC System Design; Distributed Computing Made Easy with Xgrid; Using AppleScript Studio; Third-Party Enterprise Backup Solutions; Birds of a Feather--HPC, Games, Home Automation.
Thursday: Mac OS X Printing; Developing Accessible Applications; Integrating Mac OS X with Heterogeneous Networks; Xserve Deployment; Apple Campus Bash.
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