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

Error: Failed to compare two elements in the array

July 27, 2008

I tried to do an stsadm -o export today on our Production farm and got this lovely error: [7/28/2008 11:53:56 AM]: FatalError: Failed to compare two elements in the array.    at System.Collections.Generic.ArraySortHelper`1.QuickSort[TValue](T[] keys, TValue[] values, Int32 left, Int32 right, IComparer`1 comparer)    at System.Collections.Generic.ArraySortHelper`1.QuickSort[TValue](T[] k more...

 

SharePoint MSDN Forums and SharePoint Community Trends

July 24, 2008

I'm really impressed with the new forums that have been migrated to MSDN Forums v3.0, changes are listed here. One thing to note is the "proposed answer" functionality which I think will help people mark answers easier than the last interface. Of interest was the fact that the SharePoint topics balance between Answered and Unanswered Threads. Take these examples: InfoPath - Answered: more...

 

Perth SharePoint User Group Presentation Slide Deck: SharePoint Governance

July 16, 2008

Thanks for those who braved the rain to come and listen to my presentation on SharePoint Governance. I've uploaded the slide deck here. Some of the key areas that came up during the talk I've noted below: SharePoint Designer is the Evil I've mentioned it before, but I finding it's dangerous enough to allow Business Users lose on SharePoint web interface, without letting them loose on Sh more...

 

Perth SharePoint User Group Presentation

July 13, 2008

I'll be doing a presentation at lunchtime in Microsoft's Perth office on Tuesday 15th July 2008 at 12:30 for the Perth SharePoint User Group. Last months presentation by Sezai pulled a big audience and he has put his presentations up on the User Group web site. My presentation will be on the articles I've been blogging on of late from a End User perspective, IS Owner perspective and also Develop more...