NSConference 2010: Money well spent

What you get when you put together a bunch of Mac/iPhone nerds from all over the world in place? Great event known as “NSConference”

To me it was a great introduction into the world of Mac and iPhone development. Being a newbie to the platform I doubted I can blend in the crowd of people with much more experience than me. That wasn’t a problem at all. There was no silly question to ask, and no reason to be shy and everyone was very chatty and friendly as could. For me it was great opportunity to meet the community, attach faces to twitter handles and have couple of beers. Not to mention great speakers and the technical presentations.

The fact that NSConference was divided into Mac (first two days) and iPhone (third day) was not a best idea. Plenty of people have chosen the latter only because they were scared the former is too much “mac only”. It wasn’t. My advice to Mac Developer Network for next year: Don’t repeat this mistake. Let the people to choose session they have interest in. I have found all the sessions from both parts very valuable, although lots of topics were outside of my area of interest. I still dig through records discovering things I may need and the community driven notes (kudos to authors of great SubEthaEdit) created by attendees over network during the sessions are great. Not only helped me to recap all the details but also brought a whole new point of view on the topics:

The only regret I have is that I decided to drive from home everyday. It appears I missed a lot of fun not staying in the hotel overnight :)

Following is a list of detailed write-ups and great photos I know. If you want to contribute to this list, please do so in the comments. I will update accordingly.

• Alex Blewitt (@alblue) described all three days in details: day 1, day 2, day 3
• Alexander Repty (@arepty) created a great blog entry and did nice photos
• Stefaan Lesage (@StefaanLesage) shared thoughts on workshop and all days of the conference: day 1, day 2, day 3
• Michael Dales (@mdales) shot plenty of great photos with his camera.
• Alex Rozanski (@perspx) describes workshop, day 1 and day 2
• Sven-S. Porst covers Mac part of the conference day 1 and day 1