Julian,

a) Pick an app you're passionate about (positive or negative)

b) Start with what people gain from using the web app, which problems it solves (it does, right?).

c) Find a technically interesting spot to cover (something that was hard to do, required a lot of thought/planning or didn't work at all in 1.0 under load and had to be improved rapidamente)

d) Wrap it all in a story and don't hack it up in slides and bullet points (even avoid a presentation, if possible, talk freely and use a whiteboard for writing). Related: See http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html and http://www.presentationzen.com/

e) Get a second and third opinion about your outfit for the day. Bonus: At least one female opinion.

f) Give the presentation to your best friend(s) at least once before. (Or in front of a mirror, if it suits you better).

e) If you show something on a computer, test it, test it again, set up a backup, and a second, test them, and again. Bring a Plan B in case nothing works.

f) Bring a watch/clock. 10 minutes are 10 minutes and they are over shortly after you said 'hello'.

Hope that helps, lots is obvious. Let us know how it went,

Jan

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