Apple has a page on their Apple Developer Connection website entitled Meet the Engineers Behind Tiger. Problem is, not a single one of them is titled as a software engineer at Apple. They're all managers. And they're not exactly readily available at WWDC. The real, hard working engineers that actually write code for Tiger are readily available at WWDC. Extremely readily available. People like *** ****** and ****** **********. The real people that would actually be able to help you with your bizarre problems. The real people that could actually help you to understand why a certain API works the way it does or doesn't work the way it's documented (I'm looking at you, ******* ********). These are the real people that actually implemented the API. That actually coded the framework. The people you should love. The people you can actually get to go out drinking with you (even if you don't drink) and can fondle under the table.

Then again, I don't think any of the real software engineers at Apple would ever pose for a photo. And if they did, I doubt Apple would post a picture of a fat, horribly dressed engineer with food stains all over his shirt and pants. I've never met any software engineer (code monkey) as sexy as the managers depicted in the above link.

This was totally worth being the 400th post.

Update:Some of the people that are in the below photo (from Apple's site) are real engineers and some of them are nearly god like in awesomeness.

Update 2 (To the Extrem Max): macg pointed me to some WWDC "Engineer" Trading Cards which I think are just hilarious. I still think a certain developer at "Elgato Systems" (or whatever they're calling themselves this week) should make one for himself.