Tonight I co-presented at the Christchurch SharePoint User Group "lightning talks" sessions. The idea here (which I stole loosely from Kirk Jackson and the Wellington .NET Group) was to have a number of speakers present short, sharp topics intended to give a broad overview for attendees in several different subject areas. I think this was an interesting and fun concept, though it's hard to keep a presentation to 15 minutes when SharePoint is involved!
The slides from my 15 minute session on productive SharePoint development can be found here. As a good introduction back into the world of blogging, I'm going to prepare a 7-part blog over the next couple of weeks that replicates and expands on the content from the 7 tips in the presentation.
Also check out Gary and Peter's blogs - I am sure they will post their resources in time.
If you were at tonight's session and have any additional tips of your own, or perhaps disagree with some of mine, I'd love to hear from you!
As an aside, I apologise profusely for my incredibly poor jokes in this and other presentations. Despite this I am absolutely 100% confident that I'll continue to make bad jokes in the future.
:) Matt