Jason Michael Perry

I’ve been all Mac every since my old business partner Sean and I bought a few Mac’s for the office.  I knew I would like the clean aluminum exterior of the my then brand new PowerBook but I had no idea how much my life would change.

Now I’m a Macaholic.  Even now I stand surrounded by no less than 3 Apple laptops (17″ PowerBook, 15″ MacBook Pro, and my baby the MacBook AIR).  Knowing that I’m sure you can just imagine my expression as I sat staring at Steve Jobs during my first WWDC keynote. Now, of course, I sat in overflow room #958 but it still looked damn good on that HD projector.

The conference as a whole was amazing and also cramped.  The first date was a lesson in standing in line as the more than 5,000 attendees moved from line to line with little or no idea of what was at the end.  Luckily this was just the first day (After Steve Jobs and the iPhone 3G left the building security and the waiting seemed to ease up).

In terms of lessons learned…skip the sessions and hang out in the labs.  The labs are not what they seem.  You will quickly find out that the labs are just a bunch of Apple’s top developers hanging out sipping on Odwalla’s while answering whatever you have to throw at them.  Hell, I got to sit down with the guys who built most of the apps on the iPhone.  I even talked to the lead who wrote Mail and AddressBook!

Of course my time at WWDC was fun, but it was still work…. So soon you can expect to hear the rumblings of our new iPhone class…as soon as I finish writing it….but soon!