Monday June 8 – Friday June 12

I wouldn’t go booking flights or hotels just yet, but that’s when I’m planning on being in SF again…i.e. nothing’s definite until Apple makes the announcement, but that’s the info I have from a previously reliable source.

Will update info if I get any more news.

Belated Update: I was in Melbourne for the footy when the announcement was made last week, so I forgot about updating this post. Dates above are confirmed. See WWDC site for more info.

FWIW it has particular implications for OS X security. The recent hubbub about the trojaned iWork installer highlights one of the problems with OS X Leopard supporting both current (Launchd) and deprecated (Startupitems) startup mechanisms. Snow Leopard will apparently finally deprecate everything except Launchd – so finally there’ll only be a single startup mechanism on OS X that sysadmins need to exercise vigilance over.

See it here: Technical Note TN2083: Daemons and Agents

On a completely different note – if I ever get to know even 10% of what Quinn knows about code and programming, I think I’ll die a happy man. I don’t want to wax lyrical, and I know it’s kinda his job to know all that stuff, but damn…sometimes I do wonder if I should specialise more rather than trying to be a generalist on most things, and instead specialise in one or two areas. Food for thought…