Slide decks for my “Getting to grips with SP2013 apps” and “What’s new for SharePoint 2013 devs?” talks

I seem to have been doing a bit more speaking than writing recently, and I just wanted to publish the decks for attendees (or anyone else interested) to find. The two talks were:

• Getting to grips with SharePoint 2013 apps (SharePoint Saturday UK)
• What’s new in SharePoint 2013 for devs (SharePoint User Group UK)

There’s around 50% overlap in the decks (mainly because apps *are* such a big part of what’s new in SP2013 for devs), but the “What’s new” talk covers other topics also. I’ll generally be blogging in detail about most of this stuff (or have done already in some cases), but here are some more detail if you’re wondering if anything in the slide decks could be useful to you:

Getting to grips with SharePoint 2013 apps

View/download  link - http://www.slideshare.net/chrisobrien/getting-to-grips-with-sharepoint-2013-apps-chris-obrien

• Definitions
• Why apps? (or, why Microsoft invested so much)
• Official Microsoft guidance on apps
• 3 key decisions to make on apps (for any company implementing SharePoint 2013)
• App development fundamentals/app hosting options
• Apps and SSL
• How users obtain apps
• Developing SharePoint-hosted apps
• Developing cloud apps
• Possible reasons to need a cloud app
• 5 lessons learnt developing apps

Side note - I’ve given a similar talk a few times now, but each time the session has 30-40% of new stuff in it as I learn more and form deeper opinions. Frankly the topic is so deep that I could imagine speaking/writing about it regularly for the next 2 years with deeper and better info each time.

But, I don’t particularly want to focus on apps exclusively – there are too many other interesting things to write/talk about. Which is why I included a Display Templates/JSLink demo in my “What’s new” talk.

What’s new in SharePoint 2013 for developers

View/download  link - http://www.slideshare.net/chrisobrien/sp2013-for-developers-chris-obrien

Note that I also wrote a detailed SharePoint 2013 – my view on what’s new (particularly for developers) article at RTM time.

• SP2013 developer investments, by order of potential impact (my view)
• Tooling enhancements (e.g. list/content type designer, IntelliTrace etc.)
• Apps
• Definitions
• Official Microsoft guidance on apps
• 3 key decisions to make on apps (for any company implementing SharePoint 2013)
• Display Templates (aka JSLink, aka Client Side Rendering)
• Demo showing a standard SharePoint list being rendered in a custom way (using a jQuery UI accordion)
• Managed navigation
• Cross-site publishing

I learnt a few things putting the demos together for these talks, so have some detailed blog posts in the queue. Thanks to all who came to these talks, and asked questions/gave feedback etc. – much appreciated :)