WWDC 2010 - Keynote is coming!

This will be my eighth WWDC as an Apple employee.

And I've gone to all but one since they started holding them at the Fairmont in SJC rather than the Doubletree. Personally, I miss the San Jose Conference Center. But mostly because 'the shut-in' didn't' have to leave the conference/hotel for a week'.

Each session has a Developer Publications writer attached to it in case there are questions about the documentation. And so typically I get to sit in the front row and sweat out that someone might ask something.

I dread getting on stage.

I don't mind answering questions but I'm sensitive about standing up there and hearing my amplified voice. Ugh. Just hit me up post session. Or in the hall. I'm the dude in the engineer shirt wearing cargo pants (OK, honestly? they're Vietnam era jungle fatigues).

I'll freely admit that I use my iPhone and iPad every day. I enjoy them and rely on them. I did iPhone programming for the 2.0 launch and loved it, and did more for recently published documentation.

But my heart is on the desktop. Overlaps as far as my documentation responsibilities are pretty limited to Foundation and Core Animation. So those are the sessions I'm assigned to. And labs. I get to work labs.

This year I'll be working documentation labs on Wednesday and part of Thursday. It's great to talk to developers about how we the doc navigation and search can be made better.

I have sessions or labs on every day but Monday, the first time I've been this busy, and it's not even the platform I specialize in. So much busier than usual. Toss in that my stress level is at a high (I'm not even supposed to be here*, according to my therapist) and it has the potential to be a very good or bad week. Good will be OK, bad would be a total catastrophe (potential hospitalization). So don't be a douche, please.

But at least I'll get to see developers, both friends and new faces.

Just don't touch me. Seriously. It is the biggest trigger for my obsessive compulsive disorder and it only makes the stress worse.

Did you catch the Clerks reference there?