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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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 .

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Links to sites I use

August 30, 2006

Someone asked what resources I use for design and standards, here's a quick dump of the regulars I check.Design: http://www.digitalthread.com/ http://www.bornmagazine.org/ http://www.core77.com/ http://www.shift.jp.org/ http://www.creativebehavior.com/ http://www.designtaxi.com/ http://9rules.com/http://www.csszengarden.com/ Standards: http://www.alistapart.com/ Show off sites: http://ww more...

 

Hummingbird -> MOSS 2007

August 23, 2006

Was reading Steve Sofian's blog on his journey with Hummingbird to IBM Document Manager ingetration and wondering about whether Microsoft will bother to integrate with IBM DM themselves. Hummingbird are making mad efforts to integrate with Sharepoint 2003 and 2007 in the thought that if they integrate, customers won't dump Hummingbird for DM but just use Sharepoint as a Portal.Realistically Share more...

 

Sharepoint University

August 23, 2006

Stumbled across these forums at Sharepoint University today, has a nice feature of an RSS feed for each room which I've not come across before. Extremely handy! more...

 

Hummingbird API COM communication on ASP.Net and WinForms

August 23, 2006

I've been doing some .Net 2.0 development with a Web Service to communicate with the DM server via the COM API. I have written a Class Library which both a Windows Forms app uses and a Web Service uses. I've deployed these to a standard Windows 2003 SP1 machine and the Windows Form app works, but the Web Service call fails with the below error: System.ApplicationException: Error -2147220997 more...

 

M$ Sharepoint 2007 Learning Portal

August 22, 2006

Found this link to some free eLearning material available from Microsoft. The courses are pretty basic but have some good presales material on what M$ percieves are it's selling points in the market. more...

 

Triple J Unearthed online

August 22, 2006

Graeme Heath pointed me to a great web site done by Triple J (an Australian Radio station) that promotes up and coming bands. You can rate, listen to and download (mp3) what you like. There's plenty of information on each band...gonna be hitting it up for some more music to listent to on the way to work! Only 3 (Fools of April, Razorlily)  bands from Perth in the top 100...come on Perth! more...

 

AOL...oooppps

August 22, 2006

Great article on someone who took all that AOL user data that leaked out and profiling them...extemely funny stuff...I wonder what profile I would fit? Sadly heads got chopped also from AOL for the leak also. more...

 

Google Map mashup - What's the other side of the world

August 22, 2006

Graeme must be bored today...he found this neat google map javascript mash up that shows what's the other side of the world. more...

 

Sharepoint 2007 Web Content Pages

August 21, 2006

I've been having a bit of an experiment with Sharepoint 2007 and creating a Site of 'Publishing Site' type. The best thing to do is make it a top level site and that way it's master pages are used when you create Pages and it uses the Page Layouts etc. within that Site (unless you really want to share Page Layouts across different web sites).Changing the Page LayoutYou can change the Page Layout more...

 

MOSS 2007 research

August 15, 2006

I've been researching WSS v3.0 and MOSS 2007. Here are some useful links to kick start you off:ArticlesList of Web Parts available for WSS and MOSSSites Microsoft Office Online Beta MSDN SharepointMicrosoft Sharepoint Community Sharepoint KicksBlogs Andrew Connell SharepointBlogs Westin’s Patrick Tisseghem’s MNissen LauraJ JanT SharepointThoughtsSamplesWSS Demo You can also hit more...

 

Ricky Gervais

August 13, 2006

Found this online...don't usually like The Office dry humour, but this is funny as it's related to IT also. more...

 

ADO.Net Entity Framework

August 7, 2006

In the last  major web application development I worked on we auto generated a whole data layer based on a defined database schema. Microsoft have popped their heads up now with ADO.NET advancements and are offering up their own Entity type objects.Channel9 have got a nice video regarding this and the ADO.NET team blog also has a good introduction to where they are going with this. Thanks to Lee more...

 

Screen recording

August 7, 2006

Been searching for a good screen recorder for a while now and finally came across an amazing open source one called CamStudio! Thoroughly recommend it to record direct to AVI with sound. It also can convert to swf file too. more...

 

2007 Office System Video: Enterprise Content Management

August 3, 2006

Microsoft have done a great job of putting up some recordings of a recent conference which has some great demos of Sharepoint 2007 in action showing how you would implement a CMS system into this.EditorFirst impressions are that I like the fact that you can edit templates in Visual Studio or the FrontPage replacement. One thing about working in RedDot was that EVERYTHING is in a browser so you ca more...