Each year, Facebook holds a big ol' developer conference where it announces a few new products, host a bunch of sessions for developers to learn how to work with the various products under Facebook's watch (WhatsApp, Oculus, Facebook itself, etc)., and everyone drinks a little too much under the guise of networking.
I had a couple of sessions with the actors too, and I know Sarah and John had a bunch of sessions together, and you can tell they're improvising.
We have a basecamp demo areas on the first floor [of I/O], more demos on the second floor and a bunch of breakout sessions".
We're slightly disappointed, then (although not entirely surprised), to report that Gary Go's music is duller than watching paint dry in Snow Patrol's spare room while a bunch of balding session musicians take a mid-afternoon nap next door.
"Hey Rick?" "Yeah, Bill?" "We need a bunch of placeholder names for sessions at WWDC.
It turns out "simple" problems like getting a bunch of users in a single session or keeping track of objects you've moved around between sessions are actually incredibly complex.
Hughes did throw a bunch of changeups during his last bullpen session, and he said they felt good coming out of his hand.
Then we had a good late-night session with a bunch of South Africans who produce an African football show, and headed back to base very pleased with ourselves.
Four different VR applications, several render-heavy workflows that were upgraded from minutes or hours of waiting to real-time on the iMac Pro, and a session with a bunch of simultaneous multi-device simulators running on top of browser tests running in emulators of Windows and OS X machines all while compiling Linux from source – and nary a fan was heard spinning up.
That's why I was hesitant to take part in a rapid-fire speed dating session with a bunch of strangers and no wingmen to cover up my constant blunders with ladies.
