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 .

Latest Posts

Generic Lists

January 18, 2007

I'm sure this is an obvious one, but this is a nice use of the new List with Generics:             List<DirectDebitsRequestPayment> payments = new List<DirectDebitsRequestPayment>();             DirectDebitsRequestPayment payment = new DirectDebitsRequestPayment();            payment.Amount = new decimal();            payment.FromAccountName = string.Empty;              p more...

 

Asynchronous SQL stored procedure command execution in .NET 2.0

January 16, 2007

I was looking for a way to call a stored procedure asynchronously and Keyvan Nayyeri's article which does just that. This can come in handy where you do not want to increase the timeout of a stored procedure but have some serious processing going on in the database. I'm currently doing a lot of work on batch processes which are triggered when messages are dropped on queues and this should suit me more...

 

Geek speak

January 11, 2007

LOL just got sent a Geek Viral email and actually laughed at it...does that make me a geek too?  Top 10 things likely to be overheard from a Klingon Programmer 10. Specifications are for the weak and timid! 9. You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you stand! 8. Indentation?! - I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull! 7. What is this talk of 'release more...

 

Finally the Apple iPhone comes out!

January 9, 2007

Well, it's taken long enough to get here...but the iPhone is out!First impressions...the battery life is going to be terrible! With all those components onboard it's going to drain very quickly and normal consumers won't be used to charging everyday! I'm used to it with my O2 XDA Atom, but it's taken some time and is still inconvenient. People will think it is an advantage having one device but o more...