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)
More...


Podcasts

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

Latest Posts

CDBurnerXP Pro for creating iso's

December 18, 2005

I've been setting up some instances of Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Release and found it quicker to create an ISO image of the SQL 2005 cd's etc. for installing it all. I found the CD Burner XP Pro Software which is really neat for creating them and best of all it's free! more...

 

CruiseControlException: Source control operation failed

December 14, 2005

We've been using CruiseControl at my workplace now for a month and have had no problems apart from this sneaky one...it only happens once in a while and I've not really found anything on the web regarding the error apart from Jerry's similar issue. It's a bit of a pain, because you get a status of Exception and although immediately you just guess that it's this error...you then have to force rest more...

 

Searching....

December 1, 2005

Ever found that Windows XP never finds what you want in your file structure using their standard search contains function in Explorer? ...me too! I found this program called WinGrep which is similar to the GREP function in UNIX. It is very powerful and pretty quick and has been a saviour so far! more...