360|iDev Amazing Announcement, Part 2: Mike Lee to roam the show floor!
Posted on | August 17, 2009 | No Comments
So you’ve all heard by now that Matt Drance is keynoting Monday morning. That’s an “Amazing Announcement” for sure, but what about our last keynoter? Many of you will remember that Mike Lee kicked us off last time, but then had to leave. We couldn’t blame him though as he then went to sign his new hire paperwork with Apple HQ.
Well, today we have some big news, bmf’ing news to be exact. Yup, you guessed it, Mike Lee (aka @bmf aka “i <3 Obj C”) will be back to 360|iDev. He’s not going to be keynoting though. He’s passed that baton on to @drance. No, instead, Mike’s gonna do what Mike loves to do: talk code with people.
I think this tweet from Mike’s twitter stream sums it up quite nicely. To be fair, he was on his way to iPhoneDevCamp 3 but it’s still the truth:
I spend all week fixing code at work, then I go out on the weekends and fix code for free, because I love what I do, and I love developers.
That’s the kind of man you want to bump into at a conference. For those that aren’t familiar with Mike Lee, he worked on Delicious Library, helped found Tapolous, and then went to work at Apple. That and he obviously loves coding and developers.
We chatted with Mike early in the planning stage for the Denver show. He said his current employment position prevented him from participating in the show, but that nothing prevented us from enabling him to come out and talk code. As he put it, “To be honest, that’s gonna be worth more to people than me talking.” You gotta love a man who knows his strengths.
You heard it right. If you are stuck with your code, want to learn a more efficient way to do things, or just want to know why Objective-C is so great, Mike’s gonna be there to comfort you. The thing that you’ll notice quickly is that not only is Mike smart, but he’s also one of the nicest guys in the world. After keynoting our first show, he left us a hand written thank you note. People like that are rare, and so are opportunities to hang with them.
There’s only one way to guarantee that you’ll be able to talk shop with Mike. That’s to head over to the reg page and buy your ticket. Oh, and don’t forget, you get an additional 40+ iPhone development sessions by top notch techies. Did you forget that it’s only $499 to attend too? Talk about a bargain!
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