Thanks to the Apple University Consortium, I was lucky enough to go to /dev/world 2010 held at the Rydges Hotel in Melbourne. Melbourne was it's usual cold and wet self, but that certainly in no way hampered any of the enjoyment.

Guest speakers this year were Andre Pang from Pixar and Matt Gallagher best known for his Cocoa with Love blog, who both gave great and insightful talks.

Some of the highlights for me at this event were:- Jake MacMullin from ABC's talks on Core Data and HTTP Live Streaming, Kyle Buttress's Campus Navigation using CoreLocation with custom maps and Sushant Verma's GameKit and how easy it is to implement and hook up devices.

It was a great event and I would very much like to go next year. Oh and it would be remiss of me not to mention that I won an iPod Nano in Icon Bingo at the AUC Dinner. This of course, just enhanced the whole experience.

You can find Chris Neugebauer's gallery here and my photos here.

This morning I tried out Google Scribe, which is this tool that autocompletes as you type. It can be added to your browser via a bookmarklet to use it everywhere or if you just want to test it out you can visit scribe.google.com.

It has been criticized for producing clichés as the text used is based on previously published material. It's a little wacky and takes a little getting use to, I even wrote this post using it. It'll be interesting to see how it people used it and whether or not it has any traction.

I must say it's very annoying having to press the ESC key all the time. It would have be better if it wouldn't automatically highlight and use a word or phrase when I press SPACE, when I want a SPACE not the word that scribe has suggested. I also had to fix up some of the grammer mistakes it had generated, so you're probably not going to be writing your essay or assignments with this.