Comments on: WWDC 2006 Decompression http://blog.roguesheep.com/2006/08/13/wwdc-2006-decompression/ Behind the scenes with the sheep Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:00:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: toxicsoftware.com » Obligatory WWDC Wrap-Up and Leopard Analysis  http://blog.roguesheep.com/2006/08/13/wwdc-2006-decompression/comment-page-1/#comment-501 toxicsoftware.com » Obligatory WWDC Wrap-Up and Leopard Analysis  Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:22:15 +0000 http://blogs.roguesheep.com/?p=13#comment-501 <p>[...] Everyone else is doing it so I figure I ought to. [...]</p> [...] Everyone else is doing it so I figure I ought to. [...]

]]> By: Peter-john Byrnes http://blog.roguesheep.com/2006/08/13/wwdc-2006-decompression/comment-page-1/#comment-463 Peter-john Byrnes Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:28:17 +0000 http://blogs.roguesheep.com/?p=13#comment-463 <p>I can't speak to long time Mac developers, but certainly a major contributing factor to the fertile Cocoa development biosphere was the University of Washington. They had enough NeXT machines to have at least one big lab if memory serves, which seems to have insprired a generation of developers. Shipley was at UWash, and WebCrawler (originally an Obj-C application way back in 1994) was written there.</p> I can’t speak to long time Mac developers, but certainly a major contributing factor to the fertile Cocoa development biosphere was the University of Washington. They had enough NeXT machines to have at least one big lab if memory serves, which seems to have insprired a generation of developers. Shipley was at UWash, and WebCrawler (originally an Obj-C application way back in 1994) was written there.

]]> By: macFanDave http://blog.roguesheep.com/2006/08/13/wwdc-2006-decompression/comment-page-1/#comment-457 macFanDave Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:49:46 +0000 http://blogs.roguesheep.com/?p=13#comment-457 <blockquote cite="roguesheep">The shear number of developers. . .</blockquote> <p>Excellent pun! Normally, it would be "sheer," but sheep need to get sheared. Good one.</p> <p>That IS and impressive list of indy Mac developers and I cannot take on the challenge. I wish Houston could compete, but I don't know of anything other than Alsoft (DiskWarrior).</p> <p>My theory is that great Mac developers are driven, in part, by a certain antipathy toward Microsoft. Until the crash, Enron was everywhere in Houston. The baseball stadium, sponsorships and the mantle of success was put on Enron, Enron, Enron. I'll bet Seattle-ites(?) are inundated with the same kind of fawning over MicroShaft. My bet is that world capital of Microsoft-hatin' is Seattle and that, in a weird way, gives the Seattle Mac developer the extra mojo to create great software.</p> The shear number of developers. . .

Excellent pun! Normally, it would be “sheer,” but sheep need to get sheared. Good one.

That IS and impressive list of indy Mac developers and I cannot take on the challenge. I wish Houston could compete, but I don’t know of anything other than Alsoft (DiskWarrior).

My theory is that great Mac developers are driven, in part, by a certain antipathy toward Microsoft. Until the crash, Enron was everywhere in Houston. The baseball stadium, sponsorships and the mantle of success was put on Enron, Enron, Enron. I’ll bet Seattle-ites(?) are inundated with the same kind of fawning over MicroShaft. My bet is that world capital of Microsoft-hatin’ is Seattle and that, in a weird way, gives the Seattle Mac developer the extra mojo to create great software.

]]> By: Rhonabwy » Blog Archive » The pacific northwest is good for MacOS X http://blog.roguesheep.com/2006/08/13/wwdc-2006-decompression/comment-page-1/#comment-449 Rhonabwy » Blog Archive » The pacific northwest is good for MacOS X Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:45:01 +0000 http://blogs.roguesheep.com/?p=13#comment-449 <p>[...] Maybe it’s the weather, or the water, or .. hell, I dunno. But I think Chris has it pretty nailed when he called out the huge number of indie and professional mac programmers in the Seattle area in his WWDC decompression post. [...]</p> [...] Maybe it’s the weather, or the water, or .. hell, I dunno. But I think Chris has it pretty nailed when he called out the huge number of indie and professional mac programmers in the Seattle area in his WWDC decompression post. [...]

]]> By: Steve Riggins http://blog.roguesheep.com/2006/08/13/wwdc-2006-decompression/comment-page-1/#comment-446 Steve Riggins Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:23:26 +0000 http://blogs.roguesheep.com/?p=13#comment-446 <p>Portland developers represent :)</p> Portland developers represent :)

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