Best Practice List Development in SharePoint

I had the honour of speaking on the subject of best practice SharePoint list development at last weekend’s SharePoint Saturday event held in Perth, Western Australia but I want to take this discussion one step further. I’m therefore creating this post to point to my slide deck from the event and as an index for follow-on, detailed posts about some of the items I had to gloss over. There’s precious little out there, in a single location, on the subject of list development guidelines and I’m hoping to change that. If you want to contribute what you feel is a best practice I’ve missed or challenge one of the practices I do have listed, please comment and join the discussion.

Slides are available here: Best Practices for Developing SharePoint Lists (PowerPoint | PDF)

Here are the two key resources I cite in the presentation:

• Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model 
• Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects