Thusday was a very intense day. Sessions started at 9 am and I visited the Apple Design Awards and the must see special event Stump The Experts in the evening. I only returned to my hotel at around 11 pm.

Core Animation seems to be a great framework, but the Keynote presentation gave a wrong picture about it’s functionality. It can do 3D stuff, but it’s really build for 2D graphics. I don’t know how they move the camera in the demo, but I think it’s some kind of rearranging the layers in the z dimension.

Objective 2.0 brings some really great new features into the language. Especially the properties are a real help when developing Core Data application and the implementation of the Garbage Collection seems to be pretty solid.

Thuesday’s Agenda:
User Interface Design
Taking Advantage of Leopard Features in Cocoa
Introducing Core Animation
Objective-C 2.0 Overview
Core Data in a Nutshell
Apple Design Awards
Stump the Experts