Geeks, Geeks, and More Geeks!

This afternoon I attended a presentation in Vancouver put on by Microsoft. It was focused on using Microsoft technologies to produce sophisticated "Web 2.0" websites. The average person out there would have been bored silly but for the thousand or so geeks (incl. yours truly) it was absolutely fantastic.



The seminar was conducted by John Bristowe from Microsoft's Calgary office. Here's a subset of the notes I took on my Pocket PC:

• Local .Net User Group: netbc.ca
• Threat Analysis and Modeling Tool
• dev.live.com including the Virtual Earth Interactive SDK
• Investigate FiddlerTool.com
• Investigate Web Development Helper (Nikhil)
• Investigate AutoCompleteExtender
• Investigate FireBug add-on for FireFox
• Investigate microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals (Debug View)
• Investigate DevTeach.com
• Investigate iis.net\downloads (web app stress testing)
• The "Drip" tool can detect JavaScript errors such as memory leaks.
• Investigate msdn.microsoft.com/practices
• Check out DotNetNuke
• Check out ImagineCup.com
• Check out strangeloop.com

The more I learned, the more I realized how much more I have to learn!