Keynotes
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Mike
Lee |
Mike Lee, the world's toughest programmer, is the founder and CEO of United Lemur, a philanthropic revolution disguised as a software company. Mike also cofounded Tapulous, whose titles include Tap Tap Revenge and Twinkle. Prior to iPhone, Mike cut his teeth and won an Apple Design Award at Seattle-based Delicious Monster Software. |
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Mike is originally from Honolulu, is a popular blogger and occasional
pundit, and has been seen on twitter as bmf. His last known
day job was as a Senior Engineer at a very large company in
Cupertino marketing magical products. |
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Aaron
Hillegass |
Aaron
Hillegass is the CEO of Big Nerd Ranch, which he founded in
2001. He started programming at the age of 10 in the basement
of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. He was a a developer
trainer at NeXT in 1995 - 1997. NeXT was bought by Apple, so
he left in June of 1997 to create ClassMAX.com,
the search engine for classes and seminars. |
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After
leaving ClassMAX during the late 1990s, Aaron went on to become
one of the best WebObjects programmers on the planet; he was
especially known for his skill deploying WebObjects applications.
In 2000 Aaron was asked to teach Apple engineers how to write
apps for Mac OS X. In 2007, MacTech named Aaron one of the top
25 most influential people in the Mac community. An accomplished
speaker, Aaron has lectured at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference
(WWDC), ApacheCon, and C4. He also gave the keynote at the "Voices
That Matter" iPhone Developers Conference in 2009. Aaron is
also a best selling author. "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X"
was published in December of 2001. "Cocoa Programming," now
in its third edition, is widely considered the Bible in the
industry. He is also the co-author of "Core Mac OS X Programming,"
which was later renamed "Advanced Mac OS Programming. |
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