WWDC Hotel & Food Advice

Many thanks to Tod, for all his good advise on this thread.

In the end I used hotels.com which returns search results sorted by the distance they are from the landmark you search for.

Like is mentioned before I'm at the Spaulding Hotel which is really cheap, like $80 a night, and super close too. Maybe you guys aren't on as much of a budget as me which is cool too, there a ton of $200 a night rooms. I used to travel a lot before I settled down, and I'd rather bring a light sleeping bag with me to a crummy hotel room and blow my money on food and drink any day before an overpriced commodity like hotel rooms. Especially in a city with reputation for lots of good food and drink to try.

It'd be cool if there was a newbie get together over a meal or something. Not that I'm saying any one's a newbie (besides me), you've probably all been developing for a while and just finally making it to the conference. I'm pretty fresh though, and a little nervous about going so early. Cause I don't really have any real projects going yet, so can't take as much advantage of the labs, even though everyone says that's what makes it worth the effort. I've just got a bunch of ideas and a super eagerness to get them going. I'm not totally fresh, I can read objective-c and all, and I learn something new about the different frameworks everyday, just probably fresher that you all, and than I'd like to be.

Meeting others will be awesome for me. I live in richmond, va. and don't know a single other developer in person. Learning from books gets easier the longer you do it, but it ***** when you don't know if you are pronouncing things right.