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)
More...


Podcasts

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

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Mar 272006

The Lynx Effect -> Lynx Click

Well, the ads out with Ben Afflick 1. Firebox has the 'clicker' for sale. The Flash game isn't that special and clicking isn't that responsive on the Girls in the game.
Talk is suprisingly quiet online about it being as it was released on March 1st. Google has hardly anything on this.
It's a shame when marketing back fires like that...although maybe they are holding off a bit...usually Lynx are everywhere.
Published: 3/27/2006  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Mar 272006

Translations gone wrong

This link is so funny...translations of Chinese restaurant menus gone wrong!



On this note too...check out the "Best fight scene of all time" on YouTube...watch it to the end too! Imagine paying to see this at the cinema...do you think they'd be anyone left after this scene?!?

Graeme pointed me to engrish.com too.
Published: 3/27/2006  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Mar 262006

ASP.NET 2.0 useful links

Found a good set of ASP.NET 2.0 tutorials here, very useful for getting started in the new features available.

Still not got my new phone yet, since my last one got stolen! Optus Phone Insurance still haven't got the 02 XDA Atom on their list...even though it is in their stores! I ring up each week and they say "try back in three weeks" or "maybe at the beginning of next month". It's driving me crazy...I want to get a replacement PDA phone, but Optus only do Sony Ericsson, Palm and O2 PDAs. I quite like the M600i because it's compact but still a PDA.I also like the P990i, but it's a bit bulkier, but has a bigger screen for when I want to watch movies on the device. I like the Palm 700w but again the screen is small and square and has an annoying aerial. The Atom is definately the best looking and I have no interest in using a keyboard and like the fact this one relies on screen input.
Published: 3/26/2006  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Mar 262006

Apple buys Multi-touch patent

Anyone who's seen Tom Cruise in Minority Report and gone..."man I want that screen"...are that bit closer. Apple have bought the patent for this awesome multi-touch screen technology which is shown off in this video. Again, the link is on Google Video which seems to be getting more and more take up. Interestingly it can also be found at YouTube which even Bill Gates was happy to promote at MIX06.
Mac Rumours has some talk on it, engadget, world of apple, appleinsider, and digg has plenty of hits.
This is amazing stuff and it'd be really interesting to see how this kind of technology sways how we surf for information on the Internet aswell.
M$ started some buzz last week at CeBit regarding Origami and their UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC). They have a "multitouch" interface with screen shots to demonstrate how this could come to light. More on UMPC at UMPC news, UMPC Community and the Origami project homepage.
Published: 3/26/2006  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Mar 222006

.Net Framework upgrade from 1.1 to 2.0

M$ have a migration wizard that does the upgrade from 1.1. to 2.0 and it reports on areas it struggles on. I did try this directly with my pet project and it seemed to convert the class files fine. There seem to be a fee issues I think it just comes down to how M$ .Net pure you wrote your application.
CodeBetter seemed to have no problems at all with their upgrade. The main advantages are performance enhancements, ADO.Net upgrades, full XHTML support, Visual Studio enhancements,  and the fact it's the future!

The main error I got was for most of my user controls which was:
ERROR: The following files were not migrated because they were not found in the project file or the associated 'BuildAction' is set to 'None'. You may need to exclude these files from the project after the conversion process in order to compile your web site
This was the 'old chestnut' where user controls would loose their mappings to their code behind files and didn't have a relationship between them. I double clicked on each user control and opened them in VS2003 and it remapped these.

Now I've got some teething problems though with regards to the:
  • how it grabs configuration data from web.config;
  • it moving files around and confusing Subversion (my version control)
Other than that, it worked fine! It allows me to use the 1.1 binaries for my URL rewriting that Scott Gu wrote and also the FCKEditor. But I'm sure I can take the time now to upgrade these to the 2.0 alternatives ;-) More work!...But atleast now I can start playing in VS2005 and with Atlas!
I must admit I did see a performance improvement on load times of the application.


Published: 3/22/2006  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Mar 222006

Google fever

Okay, I shouldn't really have a new post for every new feature that Google comes up with...but I've been using the Google Reader for a while now and use it to surf the web every day. They've now made a new way to virally market this product with the ability to share your feeds you have and also starred items with the public! Either by a link or by putting a code snippet on your web site!
The code snippet uses some javascript ajax type technology to render it to the screen.
Published: 3/22/2006  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Mar 212006

Windows Media Center

As mentioned yesterday, M$ was really pushing WMC at MIX06. This blog discusses the amount of sales they've pulled through the door in the last year and it's quite amazing. The Xbox 360 has the ability to run as a WMC aswell and the roll out of that is going to push this technology through the roof.
Apple have got their own version of this software, FrontRow, which they are pushing with their mac mini.

They basically do the same thing where you can push content to the device from other PCs around the house to display on a TV etc.

It'll be interesting to see where this all goes. BBC did a talk in teh Mix06 web cast showing how they were going to publish a weeks worth of movies to their web site for the public to download.

They've also just released the MSDN developer library for Windows Live technology. It covers Messenger, Search, Spaces, Virtual Earth and Gadgets.
Published: 3/21/2006  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Mar 202006

Mix 06

Great summary of Mix06 from Robert Burke's blog. The MySpace stats are incredible, I didn't realise it was the 2nd biggest visited web site on the Internet...above Google etc.! This shows how community sites can dominate the Internet! The .Net 2.0 conversion stats are also quite impressive with regards to performance increases etc.
Published: 3/20/2006  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Mar 202006

Atlas March CTP

I'm pumped to try and get Atlas March CTP going and getting in their show case. It'd be great to get the new skin on the web site and get my GoogleMaps stuff happening with some Atlas in there as well.
First off I need to get the site going in .Net 2.0 which shouldn't mean too much work. I'll get to a point in the Google maps where it actually works and then start upgrading it.
Interesting comments from Rob Chartier with regards to the documentation with Atlas.  I agree with what he is saying with regards to browser support for these things. I mean, it wouldn't take long for this stuff to be produced and would probably encourage more adoption to this technology by serious companies rather than just technies wanting to play!
Watch this space! Probably for rants about Atlas, GoogleMaps and the .Net 2.0 upgrade!
Looking into some interesting stuff with relation to promoting the web site and encouraging people to refer my site using small banner ads and links using a membership referral ranking system I've come up with. More on this soon...
Published: 3/20/2006  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Mar 202006

M$ goes after a piece of pie off Interwoven, Hummingbird, Objective and TRIM

There is a good web cast here which outlines what they are covering, after 20 minutes it goes into migration details. In summary, they claim: Document Management, Records Management, Web Content Management and Forms Management with regards to Workflow, Metadata, Policy, Search, Security, Collaboration, Deployment etc.

I’ve put my name down for the beta 2 program. Be interesting to see if they respond with more details. It’d be good to look under the hood to see what are the key differences between Office 2007 and RedDot/Teamsite implementations.

From scanning that web cast, it looks like M$ will tick every box that Interwoven and RedDot do. The main features that Interwoven sell with are workflow, deployment, security and WYSIWYG editing and M$ will do this, but can’t say for sure how close.

They also have the ability to support anonymous users and authenticated users with personalization on the top…which Teamsite and RedDot don’t do easily in one administration console. RedDot has LiveServer and TeamSite has LiveSite for this. These basically put dynamic engines on top of the deployed content from both eCMS's which allows for enterprise level searching and some personalisation.

There is a ‘Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2006’ at the end of this month and I would expect more features to start being announced then unofficially.

Published: 3/20/2006  12:00 AM | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

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