I’m delivering a midnight keynote at this year’s ADHOC conference (ADHOC is the new name for the old MacHack conferences) in Detroit, July 27-31. Hope to see you there!
The Advanced Developers Hands On Conference (ADHOC) is an annual event that provides a unique environment for computer programmers, engineers, students, and technology enthusiasts. At ADHOC they learn the cutting-edge technologies of the day not only from experts in classroom and conference sessions but also from each other in intense coding marathons. The conference is well rooted in the Macintosh platform – it is also called MacHack – but over the last few years the conference has grown to encompass other technologies, such as UNIX, open source, mobile devices, and more…
The showcase is an intensive, multi-day contest where you try to make something to impress everyone else at the conference. Ideally, you start it when you arrive, and you finish sometime before you go on stage to show it. Many of the coolest bits of software that came out for the Mac started in the Showcase. And, because everyone wants to see something cool, if you need the help from a programming expert who just happens to be at the show, you can ask them, and you’ll learn what you need. You can learn more about the Mac OS in a very short amount of time just by trying to write a showcase entry.
