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24Jun/111

WWDC 2011 Video recommendations (Updated)

Update 26/6/11 : I've fixed a couple of errors, and updated the formatting of the post below.

WWDC Videos are out this morning! Here's my very quick 'Hit List' based on the sessions I attended and the sessions I stared in the WWDC 2011 app on my iPad.

Monday - Kickoff Sessions

601 - Apple Platforms Kickoff

300 - Developer Tools Kickoff

400 - Graphics, Media and Games Kickoff

Tuesday

100 - What's New in Cocoa Touch

102 - Implementing UIViewController Containment ** This is probably the most interesting thing in iOS 5 from my point of view.

101 - What's new in Cocoa

500 - What's new in Core Location ** Presented by a friend of mine, lots of people were excited by the new stuff here

104 - Advanced ScrollView Techniques ** The ScrollView talks are always great

501 - iCloud Storage Overview **

105 - Polishing your App: Tips and Tricks to Improve Responsiveness and Performance

303 - What's New in Core Data on iOS ** There was some cool stuff in here.

203 - Introducing App Sandbox  (Lion)

323 - Introducing Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) **

Wednesday

111 - Visualising Information Geographically with MapKit

306 - Maximising Productivity in Xcode 4

308 - Blocks and Grand Central Dispatch in Practice ** The line for this was the longest all week

307 - Moving to Apple LLVM compiler

310 - What's new in Instruments

116 - Storing Documents in iCloud using iOS 5 ** Not exciting for me, but people like the concept

Thursday

208 - Securing Application Data

313 - Mastering Schemes in Xcode 4

210 - Mastering Grand Central Dispatch

121 - Understanding UIKit Rendering

124 - Twitter Integration125 - UITableView Changes, Tips & Tricks

316 - LLVM Technologies in Depth

422 - Using Core Image on iOS & Mac OS X **

129 - Practical Drawing for iOS Developers **

318 - iOS Performance in Depth

Friday

134 - Writing Easy-To-Change Code: Your second most important goal as a developer

322 - Objective C Advancements In-Depth

   

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