In San Francisco
I’ll be attending WWDC 2007 from 6/11 to 6/15. Things to watch closely: CoreText, CoreAnimation, PDFKit, WebKit-Cocoa integration (and all those RIA–Rich Internet Application–talk), and Ruby-Cocoa bridge, and how to put everything above together to cook an evil app. Some possibilities for iPhone dev are also very welcome.
Overall, as this is a good year for Apple, hype and optimism should abound. The delayed shipment of Leopard is but a factor to be considered. Because none of the “cool and edgy” application tech will exist on Tiger (CoreText, CoreAnimation, Objective-C 2.0). Apple may also need to answer the challenge from Adobe (Apollo) and Microsoft (SilverLight) in an age where platform is at the same time irrelevant (the only platform that matters is the web browser) and still makes differences (in terms of productivity, availability of tools, etc.).
This WWDC will be important to me as I’ll decide my own “tech roadmap” from what I’ve learned and heard there. One crucial piece among them will be how Apple respond the RIA challenge. I’m also eager to learn how indie software developers response to the web app challenge and the trend to open source. Let the show begin.
lukhnos :: Jun.10.2007 :: tekhnologia :: No Comments »