Ben @ WWDC 2007

This is a highly coveted accessory for use only by ME!

On Sunday 10th June, a group of us visited the Apple Company Store in Cupertino, California. It was a major geek-fest, with two carloads of us travelling the 40-odd miles (64km) down Highway 101 from San Francisco to Apple, Inc. Headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino.Without the organisation of Andrew Jeffrey from the Apple University Consortium we would have had to bus it down there. Thanks Andrew!

1 Infinite Loop	Cool halo effect around the sun
Company Store Retail	Apple Headquarters Street Sign
1 Infinite Loop	Company Store Retail
Street Sign on the way out of Cupertino, towards San Francisco

After the long flight and the lack of food from Air New Zealand, off we went in search of something decent to eat. And we found it at The Toaster Oven. Think of it as a classier Subway.

Arrived safely into San Francisco (tired and hungry). The Boeing 777 planes are very quiet inside which makes it possible to have a conversation without screaming at the person next to you.

Melbourne to Auckland flight was smooth all the way, but about halfway to San Francisco we hit some rough spots – sleep was hard to find after that.

Will be heading out shortly for some photos and a bit of familiarisation of the downtown area.

In order to keep Apple happy, and with the following in mind:

... with the exception of the Keynote, all
information presented or provided to you by Apple
during WWDC is considered Apple Confidential
Information, the unauthorized disclosure of which
is strictly prohibited. Please ensure that your
communications with others outside WWDC, including
your blogs, do not contain any Apple Confidential
Information.

I won’t be disclosing any Apple Confidential Information in this blog ;)

Entry to WWDC is with an E-ticket, redeemable at registration prior to the conference. Here’s what it looks like in the Apple Developer Connection website:

Only 8 days to go until WWDC kicks off.

I’ve been progressively working out which sessions I will be attending. It’s a tough choice given all the great content on offer.

Some of the key sessions I will be going to are:

• Keynote (a.k.a. Stevenote)
• Scripting for SysAdmins
• Bending Directory Services To Your Will: Best Practices
• Deploying Large-scale Storage Solutions using Xsan and Xserve RAID
• Getting Started with Xray
• Tracing Software Behavior with DTrace
• Mac OS X Security Configuration
• Using Xray and DTrace for In-depth Analysis
• Building System Images for Large-scale Deployments
• Understanding Managed Deployment