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.

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

MOSS 2007 Records Management Review

August 31, 2007

A fellow Solution Architect I work with specialises in Records Management and is on the Professional Records Management Associations boards etc. here in Australia.   I have also been reading through Joel Olsen's Whitepaper on Compliance Features in the 2007 Microsoft Office System that was written back in November 2006.   What I am attempting to do is investigate how the likes of TRIM, Open more...

 

Sharepoint Team Development & Continuous Integration

August 30, 2007

Coming from a .Net development background I am used to and promote the Continuous Integration paradigm. The benefits are just worth the intial effort, especially so in team development projects. There are lots of benefits but the main one is the encourage users to develop solutions that work more than just "on their machine", so that when the build server builds the solution and deplo more...

 

Enterprise 2.0: Social Networking and Sharepoint

August 30, 2007

I am currently preparing for a presentation I will be running in October titled "Using Sharepoint 2007 to Facilitate Enterprise Level Social Networking”.   There is obviously quite a lot of content at the moment being posted in various sources on Web 2.0 for the Enterprise and the whole Enterprise Social Networking space.   From the various client meetings I've had recently around our Sh more...

 

Get everyone involved and get them doing it everywhere!

August 29, 2007

I was just reading Kit Kai's blog post on "Can social networking technologies help?". A few interesting points were: - the emphasis on blogs and all roles getting involved e.g. Project Managers with particular issues which introduced scope creep and how they managed it. The idea being that people can search for these things and if they are blogged about generically enough they'll com more...

 

Defining a Sharepoint group for a web part

August 20, 2007

Once you've installed MOSS 2007 you'll notice there are heaps of web parts and making it easier for Portal Admins to find the web part to add can be made easier by "idiot-proof" naming and also grouping the web parts into sections. C-Dog has a great article on this which also covers how to automate what group a web part gets added to by using features and editing the .webpart manifest f more...