Well WWDC is almost upon us! I arrived safely via JetBlue who was nice enough to move me before takeoff to a window seat in an exit row. As I looked out my window, I was surprised with branding on the engine. I guess that’s just in case I nod off, then wake up and wonder where I am?

WWDC Day 0 is made for meeting up with friends, getting some coding done, and of course, picking up your badge and other goodies.

I had lunch with Jeff of HyperJeff.net and Rainer Brockerhoff. Rainer had a good idea and has a t-shirt featuring XRay II and RBSplitView. Which reminds me, I need to make a t-shirt. But I’m taking it one step at a time… I finally got my business card done.

Dinner was with the regulars of #macsb, the Mac Small Business IRC channel. And for a late night dessert, I met up with Chris Aquino, a Mac developer from Atlanta who is in the position I was last year, namely very enthusiastic about his first WWDC. So it was nice to be able to impart some wisdom as to how to get the most of WWDC. I guess I should blog that soon.

Things are much more subdued this WWDC. There was not the HUGE leak last year of the impending Intel switch that Steve Jobs announced at his keynote. Instead, there are a lot of rumors swirling around what will appear in Leopard. But no one knows anything definite. To add further fuel to the fire, I posted some comments on Brent’s blog about the possibility/my desire to have some standard status bar controls that parallel NSToolbar.

But stay tuned… all will be revealed tomorrow morning at the SteveNote. I’ll blog my reactions and see try to see what my fellow developers think. Now to rest my weary legs. Its a workout climbing the hills of San Francisco.