Announcing WWDCParties.com
I’m pleased to announce WWDCParties.com, the “parties list”, Web-2.0 style. It’s a bit barebones right now, but I’ll be trying to fill it up. Let me answer a few questions about it:
Why’d you do this?
Because @Quazie couldn’t. He did a great job with his list last year, but wasn’t able to get a ticket to WWDC this year, and didn’t feel like making a list of parties he wouldn’t be able to attend. I’ve actually owned the domain since January, but his announcement made it more urgent.
This is @Quazie. He wanted his picture here.
Why’s it a web app, instead of just a static list?
I have plans for more features down the road. For example, I plan to use the new “local storage” APIs to let you save your favorite parties to your iPhone, so that you can look up the location even when you’ve got no signal at the Moscone Center. I don’t have these implemented yet, because I wanted to release before @JivaDeVoe put too much time into his. Also, it’s finals week, and I guess I need to sleep sometime.
What’s it written in?
SproutCore. I’m not sure why I thought this was a good idea. It probably would have been easier to build an app this simple in straight PHP/HTML/JS instead of a heftier framework like SproutCore, but it wouldn’t have looked as nice. SproutCore seems nice, but the docs are quite lacking, and that contributed to a lot of the trouble I had building this.
After I wrote this, I took my own advice and rewrote it in basic languages, no frameworks. The source is available on Github.
Where’s all the content?
I can’t find any! I asked on Twitter, but didn’t get much of a response. If you’re holding a party that you’d like to see listed, use this form to add it to the list.
(As of the time of this posting, there are only two parties listed. There may be more by the time you read this. If so, feel free to ignore this question.)
This is all a massive waste of time.
That’s not a question. But yes, you’re probably right. I’m mainly doing this because no one else has yet, and I needed a project to keep me sane during finals. It’s entirely possible no one but me will even read this blog post. In which case, I’m talking to myself, and the “keeping me sane” bit failed. Anyway, I hope this makes everyone’s WWDC planning a little easier, and everyone’s WWDC a little more fun.
The iPhone version is broken.
Yup. I noticed this slightly after the site went live. It’s a SproutCore bug. It was working fine before I “built” the site, so clearly something broke in that process. However, I am sleep deprived right now and will fix it when I wake up.
