realDEVELOPMENT 07 in Full Swing! (Updated)

Update: You can find copies of the presentations we used at the following URLs:

• Building Better Websites (Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007)
• Developing Web Applications Today (Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007)

If you have any questions about these presentation, please feel free to let us know!

A lot of people who have attended realDevelopment so far, are clamoring for the different resources mentioned in the talk. Here's a list of the tools and resources mentioned and their link.

General Links:

• Imagine Cup - Help Canadian students succeed and make a difference by signing up teachers and students on the Imagine Cup website 
• Local user group pages - Join user groups to network with your peers and get free technical training
• ASP.NET Starter Kit for Clubs - Download and use the starter kit featured in the tour!
• Ignite your Career webcasts - Get great developer career advice from industry experts
• Code Awards - Nominate yourself, a friend or a team for career recognition and a chance to win great prizes

Session 1 Links:

• Threat Modeling Blog - Download the free Microsoft Threat Analysis and Modeling Tool
• IE Team Blog site - Download the free IE6/IE7 Virtual PC Image. Great resources for Web developers!
• Webxact test page for conformity and accessibility - Test your webpage for accessibility
• PW Speak Web Reader - Download this free screen reader to test the accessibility of your website
• W3C Markup validation service - Test your XHTML to see if it will run in most browsers
• ASP.NET Ajax Toolkit - Add AJAX functionality easily to your website
• XMethods - Find lots of great Web services to use on your website
• Live Services for developers - Use Maps, Search, Authentication, Contacts, Photos and Rich Media to enhance your website!
• Fiddler - Web debugging Proxy - Free tool to examine your asynchronous AJAX traffic
• Reserved keywords in JScript - Avoid using reserved JavaScript keywords in your code
• Nikhil Kothari's projects - Download great tools to build your Web developer toolkit

Session 2 Links:

• Mohammad Akif's blog for architects - Sign up for webcasts to help you think like an architect
• Enterprise Library - Use Microsoft application blocks to implement best practices
• Data Access Application Block - Use best practices connecting to databases
• Windows Live ID Web Authentication SDK (new) - Integrate external services such as Live ID with ASP.NET Membership
• Web Application Stress Tool - Download this free tool for testing the performance of your website
• DebugView - Download this free tool to quietly debug and trace your production website
• Drip - Download this free tool to test the memory usage of your JavaScript and AJAX applications in Internet Explorer