Welcome to my blog on all things SharePoint and .NET. I have a range of articles that will interest you if you've made it as far as visiting my blog. I currently live in Perth, Western Australia and am a Independent Sharepoint Consultant. I founded the SharePointDevWiki.com and help facilitate the Perth SharePoint User Group.

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Conferences

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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Podcasts

I have been interviewed about Leveraging the SharePoint Platform by the SharePoint Pod Show: listen here .

Latest Posts

Got a new toy!

April 20, 2005

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 J more...

 

Apple iTunes and iPod mini

April 19, 2005

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 inst more...

 

Technology making change

April 19, 2005

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 more...

 

Apple's future

April 19, 2005

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 co more...

 

Adobe buys $3.4m Macromedia Stock

April 19, 2005

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. FreehandPhotoshop vs. FireworksFlash vs. GoLive This 'merge' could make them very competitive with sharing PDF and Flash technology against Microsoft and Apple who bo more...