WWDC 2011

This past week was incredible.

If you didn't already catch the news, Capo won an Apple Design Award, and I'm still coming down from that high.

But even if I took that out of the equation, the week still rocked hard for me.

I went into WWDC 2011 expecting to hear all the fancy new user-facing Lion features, and attend sessions about trivial things such as the full-screen and multitouch advancements. After the kickoff sessions, my attitude changed completely. I felt that I had to attend a good deal of sessions—even with videos (allegedly) around the corner!

Apple has given developers a great deal of new goodies to make our code go faster, less error-prone, and easier to maintain. With Apple in such a strong position right now, it would be very easy for them to sit back and add features to an already quite solid foundation. I'm so very glad that they've not taken that route.

It seems that Apple is never quite done perfecting their products, and the developer tools and APIs come across as a very important Apple product in itself. It's not only the foundation of their own software, but also the software which is used by third parties to extend their platform further.

I don't think I've ever been more excited to be writing software for Apple's platforms, and I can't wait to dive into the exciting projects that I am working on. I'd also like to thank Apple for putting on a great show this year, as usual. You guys work very hard on this stuff, and it really shows!