What are best practices when giving a presentation to programmers?

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Published on 2011-02-25T22:28:21Z Indexed on 2011/02/25 23:33 UTC
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I've watched 50 plus presentations on programming topics, although most have been online; example, Google Tech Talks -- and have ad-hoc experience on what formats work for programmers, or practices to take into account when presenting to a group of programmers.

That said, I'm open to any suggestions, but here's some topic of the top of my head:

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If it matters, in this case -- I'm giving a presentation on using a scripting language to extract, transform and load data to a local user group who's focus is the scripting language; Ruby in this case.

Questions, feedback, requests -- just comment, thanks!!

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