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I can't seem to find a reliable place to link to in order to get the online version of the content. Both the LA Times and a Seattle paper were running versions of it at one point but I've been getting ad spam when trying to return to those URLs.
Here's my quote from the paper:
Kevin Hoffman, editor in chief of Sys-Con's iPhone Developer's Journal, is organizing the iPhone Developer Summit for October in San Jose. He said he plans to steer clear of discussions that might break the nondisclosure agreement and instead limit sessions to such safe topics as programming for the iPhone's browser and generic programming for the Macintosh.
"There's a lot of people I'd like to help with code that I can't," he said.
Contrary to some other recent quotes of me in the media, this one's accurate :) I firmly believe that there are a lot of iPhone developers out there in need of help from seasoned Cocoa pros that can't get it. The community of developers who are enthusiastic about iPhone programming are in need of a community. They need a place to go where they can get all their documentation, all their SDK help, and more importantly, where they can _talk_ about their problems and get answers from fellow iPhone programmers. Right now, the NDA is so limiting that they can't do this anywhere, and, to my knowledge, Apple isn't currently providing an NDA-friendly forum for iPhone developers on the inside of the ADC barrier (where NDA-bound content normally resides).
What Apple needs to do is jump on the social networking bandwagon and build a kick-ass social network (private if it has to be, in order to comply with the NDA) for iPhone and Cocoa developers. Give all these iPhone developers who are starving for help and, according to many, producing low-quality apps, a place to go where they can hone their skills, learn professional tips, and become better developers and increase the overall quality of iPhone apps.
Why didn't they quote you as saying VS2008 can't compile code anymore? :)
Here's a link to the article that should actually work http://w
ww.latimes.com/business/la-fi-apple25-2008aug25,0,5037111,full.story
Would it be feasible to have a conference where, in order to register and
attend, you need to prove you signed the NDA? (You'd need a lot of
security, of course.)
