Love the Mac > Day 2 of WWDC and a bit more Sightseeing

[3000 miles from home | aram kudurshian's web site] The first session I attended was Cutting-Edge Interface Design for Mac OS X, a session that gives tips and tricks on how to design for the Mac OS, what to look out for, and of course, presented some examples. A lot of things that I just knew were right were explained and I left the session feeling confident on Apple’s emphasis on UI. Of interest, Mike Matas of Delicious Library, as well as Geoff Pealman of REAL Software, spoke to use on their design and re-design (respectively) of their software. Very interesting session all together.

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[Webweavertech.com] Ovidiu Predescu's Weblog: JavaOne - MacOS X Java session: The Java Internet Plug-in has faster loading of applets, enhanced applet caching, integrated with Keychain and printing. Java WebStart updated to version 1.2, works with Keychain and adds automatic app creation. Keychain implemented using Secure Transport (?), certificates stored in Keychain. Good accessibility support, no need for Java Access Bridge: full screen reader support, full keyboard access and visual notification (hm, I wonder why the Tab key doesn't work to switch between most controls, including buttons).

[Weblogs.java.net] Simon Brown's Blog: JSIG session : Java Development on Mac OS X: A neat trick of Java on Mac OS X is that memory for the standard libraries is shared between JVMs. So, Eclipse, jEdit, and WebLogic (for instance) running simultaneously use less memory. Apple gave some of their code to Sun to support this on other platforms; perhaps it is part of Tiger?

[Oreillynet.com] OpenOffice/NeoOffice on Mac OS X: It works, but is it done? It still has Unix interface conventions, poor connectivity with other Mac OS X apps, sluggish user interface. There's a lot more to be done to create helpful installers and launchers to keep novices away from the shell and provide extension mapping for the Finder. Good Mac applications adopt the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines, they leverage Mac OS X specific technologies, and interact well with other Mac OS X applications.

[Developer.apple.com] Java and Tomcat on Mac OS X, Part II: In Part I, we covered the installation and configuration the Jakarta Tomcat servlet container on Mac OS X. In this session, you’ll see how to use Javaserver Pages (JSP) with Tomcat. You’ll also learn a bit about reusable components called Taglibs, which are supplied by the Jakarta project. Finally, you’ll see how to make a simple database-driven web applications on Mac OS X using JDBC, Tomcat, and the open-source database MySQL.

[Mikematas.com] The Mike Matas Blog: 2004 O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference: I got to see a bunch of old friends and make a bunch of new ones, I could not ask for more. But I did get more, Delicious Library won 1st place in the 2004 Mac OS X Innovators Awards. Wil and I got to speak at the "Meet the Innovators" session on Tuesday where we got to talk about our ideas and tell everyone what we think it takes to make great software. I really enjoyed talking about this stuff and the people in the session seemed to really enjoy it as well.

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