Welcome to my blog on all things SharePoint. I have a range of articles that will interest you if you've made it as far as visiting my blog. I was awarded as an SharePoint MVP by Microsoft in July 2010. I currently live in New York and am an Enterprise Architect at AvePoint Inc.. I co founded www.NothingButSharePoint.com with Mark Miller in 2010.

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Solution Development in SharePoint 2007

This series was inspired by the chatter amongst SharePoint blogs on the best ways to approach customisations in SharePoint using Solutions.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8

Leveraging the SharePoint Platform

This series was inspired by a discussion had with Andrew Coates at a Perth SharePoint User Group meeting. This then turned into a 6 part series on Arno Nell's SharePointMagazine.net web site.

Initial post - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6

Webcasts

I have recorded various web casts that I present at User Groups or just on a specific topic by request:
How ASP.NET Developers can leverage SharePoint webcast
SPSource Webcast: Reverse engineer Lists to ListTemplates and much more
SharePoint Development with Unit Testing webcast
Perth SharePoint UG Web Cast on approaches to deploying artefacts (SPSource)
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I have been interviewed about Leveraging the SharePoint Platform by the SharePoint Pod Show: listen here .

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Apr 202005

Got a new toy!

I got a new road bike today. It's an Avanti Vivace which is a New Zealand based company with all Shimano components. It looks as good as it rides! I'm gonna be cycling to work a few days a week in the realisation that I'm now 24 and I can't eat and drink without fully exercising anymore! I went out no my birthday to my favourite restaurant in Perth. It's called 'The Midori' and is a Tapan Yaki Japanese restaurant. Awesome food. If you fancy a bite and you're in the area it's on the corner Milligan & Wellington Streets, Perth, Western Australia, 6000 and the telephone number is (08) 9322 5688.
Published: 4/20/2005  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Apr 192005

Apple's future

Well with Apple announcing their raise of income this year by 530% I can see the power of Apple's marketing force. Brading counts for a lot and I feel this is the success behind the iPod against its rival MP3 players such as Creative Zen and Nomad Jukebox. The simplicity and ease of use of the device and the software, iTunes, allows people with very limited knowledge to use it. It's seen to be cool to have one...like the rest of Apple's products.

The Tiger release on the 29th of April is going to be interesting. They show Microsoft how it should be done. I mean every release is hyped up and the features do look incredible. I'm looking forward to Konfabulator...I mean Dashboard ;-) I'm a bit ashamed of Apple for using their idea without actually giving them any credit or offering them in on it. It kinda shuns the whole open source community that OSX has reinvented with it's UNIX base.

I for one, as s programmer will definately be developing Widgets and am interested in Apple's for the community to get involved in this. It opens up all sorts of potential with web services providing information to your desktop. I found Konfabulator a very hungry application so it'll be interesting to see how this does being a DHTML based component...probably based on the Safari kernel.

Well, I've preordered it as well as iLife to get the new features in iPhoto for my 5000 photos and growing and also the new iDVD and iMovie features which I'll be using to cut home movies with once I purchase a new Compact Video Camera like the Sony IP7.

Published: 4/19/2005  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Apr 192005

Adobe buys $3.4m Macromedia Stock

The announcement on the 15th April by Adobe amazes me. I can't believe that Adobe are going down this route and that Macromedia have let this happen. I mean both have mediocre products competing against each other:

  • Illustrator vs. Freehand
  • Photoshop vs. Fireworks
  • Flash vs. GoLive

This 'merge' could make them very competitive with sharing PDF and Flash technology against Microsoft and Apple who both use this technology in their line up as well.

Published: 4/19/2005  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Apr 192005

Apple iTunes and iPod mini

I started using my Palm V organiser again and configured iSync with iCal etc. Anyways, I plugged in my iPod and when i got to work I found I had a reminder to make my rent payment on my screen. I think that is such a great facility! Very clever Apple!

It'll be interesting to see the take up on the Shuffle. After convincing myself I could cope with just random songs, I'm glad I bought a Mini instead to give me the options. This latest firmware is impressive being able to rate songs on the fly etc.
I suppose the price and size of Shuffle are the main selling points and the fact you don't need wires to connect it etc.

It's also interesting to note that they've dropped the Firewire cable when you purrchase one. Apple have always pushed Firewire and it is so much faster at transferring too. Be interesting what reprecutions this has.

My friend, Ryan, is over from the UK staying with me and he has one of these Sony NetWalkman things, it's tiny and quite a nice design. One thing that I was impressed with is the pen size removable battery (which is just a standard battery size) and also that the software analyses the BPM and creates playlists for different moods. I haven't seen it running, but what a great idea! For saying chilling out to, working out to, working to etc! I wonder how long iTunes will take to get this...
I wonder what kind of dent Sony can make into the MP3 player market after only just recently allowing the MP3 format as well as their own ATRAC format. Maybe they are too late! Also, the players seem a bit more expensive due to the brand.

Published: 4/19/2005  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Apr 192005

Technology making change

I was at a party on Friday night and it was incredible to see that pretty much everyone there had a compact digital camera of sorts and were happy snapping away all night. With the acquisition of Flickr by Yahoo and Yahoo's announcement of a new community based web app called 360°. This will allow people to share photos. Bebo has been around for a while and is similar but obviously Yahoo has the marketing power to take the throne. Google have a similar offering around the corner and Microsoft have MSN Groups.

One thing that I did realise is people really don't know the risks of storing all the photos on their PCs without backing up the pictures. It's just not something that has been highlighted enough and I have over 5000 pictures and if I lost them would be devasted. Services such as Flickr allow you to have a remote collection of these which acts as a backup copy.

I found Flickr very impressive and the third party plug-in for iPhoto on OSX makes uplaoding photos so easy. I use this now to share my pics rather than emailing them to everyone individually.

Companies like oFoto have started to make movement towards a money spinning venture by selling prints and gifts from gallery photographs.

What's next is the question. Communities on the Internet are the way to bring large numbers to a site and offering blogs, instant messaging services and forums will make  them stand out from the rest. The race is definately on between the main players but who will come out on top?

The spread of Google GMail has amazed me. I think that the key to the success of that is the 1Gb free space, light interface and POP3/SMTP offerings. I think companies will have to give a little to encourage the main crowd to follow their offerings.

Published: 4/19/2005  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post