California Dreaming: WWDC 2002 Day 4
I think I've solved my sandwich situation. Breakfast. Since breakfast tends to be pastries from some unknown bakery, I had the first of my three sandwiches this morning for breakfast. They were all wrapped, so I picked one at random and got pastrami.
The first session of the day was Advanced Networking. I went because I'm working on a server, but this was far more advanced than I could handle. After that session were a whole bunch of sessions that I wasn't terribly interested in, so I went down to the DTS lab.
I was waiting to talk to Quinn, the network guy, but I was there about an hour early, so I started filing bugs against Jaguar. About forty minutes later, Quinn comes, but is grabbed by someone else. I manage to ask some questions, but Quinn says that I need to know what's happening at the packet level in order to figure out what's going on at the OT level. So I've got plenty of research to go to figure out what's with my server.
This meant that I could go to the Pixar talk. I got my lunch (a hot dog--whoop) and went into hall 2. I'm not even sure who was speaking. He said that he did lighting, but that could place him anywhere in one of many positions. He did a cool presentation about how they make movies, talked about the tools they use, and mentioned that they were thinking about moving to Mac OS X. He's an old NeXTie, so he was all agog about Cocoa.
Best session of the day (of the three that I did go to) was Stuart Cheshire speaking about zeroconf. It's an incredibly cool system dealing with local networks. There are three parts. First is automatic IP assignment in the 192.168 range. That's been out for a while. Next is a multicast DNS system where each machine picks a name and ends up with a blah.local.arpa address, so you don't need IP addresses. That's cool, but the third thing is service location, where multicast DNS is used to allow browsing for services. This is cool stuff, and if peripheral makers and other embedded systems people use it, the benefits would be amazing.
In the evening was the beer bash. I hopped a ride with Chuck to the Apple campus. Since I prefer not to drink and the food wasn't kosher, I ended up eating an apple and some bottled water. I ended up walking around talking to some people, but got a phone call from home when I went into one of the buildings. Ezra's interviewing with a real estate agency tomorrow, and that's great.
Dinner was sandwich 2. This one happened to be corned beef, so that leaves salami for breakfast tomorrow. Not great, but I'm not starving. And the guy who the restaurant guy sent me to hasn't yet called me back about Shabbos. I need to call him tomorrow morning. This is really cutting it close.