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)
More...


Podcasts

I have been interviewed about Leveraging the SharePoint Platform by the SharePoint Pod Show: listen here .

Latest Posts

SharePoint is not all of the problem, it's People too!

August 31, 2008

I have been writing an article for Arno Nell's SharePointMagazine.net and have been repeating some things I've said in User Groups over the last two years of working with SharePoint 2007. The biggest thing for me is how oversold SharePoint 2007 is as a solution, for example, how Organisations can take it on without getting in expert help to implement it. EndUserSharePoint also has a post that p more...

 

SharePoint Error: HTTP/1.1 404 Connection: close

August 25, 2008

Had this little error recently and thought I'd blog about it just incase anyone goes Googling for options on resolving it. HTTP/1.1 404 Connection: close Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:40:55 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 12.0.0.6039 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET   In my case it was because I was getting an error in the Event Log: Event Type: Error Event Source more...

 

Readify SharePoint Training in Perth, Australia

August 21, 2008

Since arriving in Perth Readify have noticed the strong demand for SharePoint services locally and have reacted quickly to this market need. Readify have brought me onboard as their SharePoint Senior Consultant as of the 1st September so Readify can better address the SharePoint consulting demand locally. Readify have also initiated their own Readify SharePoint Architecture course internally so more...

 

First Article on SharePointMagazine.net: Leveraging the SharePoint Platform

August 14, 2008

Arno Nell has published my first of a six part series on Leveraging the SharePoint Platform. Have a read and let me know what you think! more...

 

Joining the Perth Readify Team!

August 6, 2008

I've just accepted a position as a Senior Consultant at Readify and will be located here in Perth. I'm really excited about the role and having the chance to work alongside people I have respected in the industry for a long time: Mitch Denney, Joe Sango, Paul Stovell, Paul Glavich, Chris Burrows, Peter Sullivan to name just a few of the 40+ team. My role will focus on my expertise in SharePoint more...