Yesterday I spent all day in the first ever Apple developer event in Portugal. Apple carried out a Leopard Tech Talk in Lisbon, where portuguese developers could learn about some of the new stuff in Leopard, including 64 bit programming and Core Animation. The speakers were splendid, and with great technical knowledge about what they were talking about. It’s always great to watch a technical presentation made by real coders, and not by the full-of-bullshit marketing people.
Some presentations were very superficial, but the most interesting ones went as deep as some of the WWDC sessions I attended. The event was actually a micro-WWDC, and even included a nice buffet with plenty of food for lunch and coffe-breaks, all for free. As I spend almost all the WWDC week on the IT track, it was cool to learn about the desktop stuff Apple is working on.
The room was packed, and people were motivated and participative. The Apple guys really liked that, as they say those are the main factors they use to evaluate how successful and event it, specially when going to a new country for the first time. I know I’ll be there next time!
