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

inlinehockey makes it to Google top spot!

April 19, 2006

Well, I finally made it to the top spot on Google, although it appears to fluctuate from 13th to 1st a lot! Hopefully once people start linking to the site internationally the rank will go up some more and stay there! I'm still appearing 5th on Yahoo and 15th on MSN Search. more...

 

Web 2.0 predictions

April 11, 2006

Found this great article that discusses where web 2.0 really is going with some practical examples of it.It's very true and the message about collecting more data on the user before pushing content or search results is very true. My web site has all my starred internet pages I have enjoyed reading, plus a lot of information about myself. Default ProfileIf there was a default format profile for a more...

 

VS2005 ASP.NET Web Application Project RC1

April 9, 2006

I've been following Scott's progress with the Web Application Project (coined WAP) for some time now and after converting my pet project over to ASP.NET 2.0 and finding the problems with the new VS2005 IDE I was greatful for his work! The download is on MSDN.The biggest one for me was definately the locking of .aspx files when in debug mode and the batch compilation it does without the new .desig more...

 

Oracle ODP.NET drivers for Visual Studio 2005

April 4, 2006

I've just been investigating the Oracle ADO.NET drivers for Visual Studio 2005. The download is 213Mb and contains an add-in for VS2005. You get an 'Oracle Explorer' which allows you to see all the tables, views, procedures, functions, packages etc. within a database. It's pretty slick with a query analyser and wizards to create new procedures and tables etc.Found a really good tutorial on the Or more...