C4 was explosive
No, NSA, not that C4. I'm talking about the conference I went to this weekend full of mac programmers. Sheesh.
First, wowie zowie many thinks to Rentzsch. Not only is this guy wicked-smaht, he can put on a conference with 100 attendees without breaking a sweat. Well, at least it looked easy.
I met a bunch of awesome people, many of them bloggers I read religiously. Apparently, John Gruber shares my inability to leave IKEA without melting a credit card, which somehow makes me feel better about myself. Daniel Jalkut who was awarded a music degree (wee!) last year, and I had a great time talking about how surviving a jury in music school makes it impossible to feel all that nervous for any job interview or presentation ever again. Duncan Davidson shoots some fine pictures. Thanks for shooting little ol' me while you were at it, Duncan!
I met a bunch of other developers and everybody left me thinking "what a helluva nice guy/gal."
Some of the topics have me thinking, so I'm sure I'll be spilling a few pixels on them. I'm newly interested in ways of easing concurrency in app development, thanks of course to Steve Dekorte for the brain food. My new old friend from the Big Nerd Ranch Aaron Hillegass has ambushed my brain into thinking with big thoughts. ...again.
Oh! And this is my first post in MarsEdit, which is hacked by two presenters from the conference Brent Simmons of NetNewsWire fame and (for a time) Gus Mueller who founded Flying Meat Software. This is a great app. Where's my credit card?