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

Perth User Group Meeting: Presenting external data sources using SharePoint Business Data Catalogue (BDC) and SQL Reporting Services.

October 1, 2008

It's the first month I've put my hand up to help with the Perth User Group with organisation. I've presented a few times in the past and I've managed to convince (bribe with beer) my good friend Richard Greene to present. He will be talking about "Presenting external data sources using SharePoint Business Data Catalogue (BDC) and SQL Reporting Services". The presentation is on the 21s more...

 

Best Practices for deploying to the 12 HIVE

September 26, 2008

I've had yet more discussions in the office about best practices, this time referring to deploying to the 12 Hive. Here are some hard and fast rules. Don't modify out of the box (OOTB) files There's always a way around modifying OOTB files...even if it does mean selling a extra step to the Business Users. Just explain the risks of making them! You can extend with new file more...

 

SharePoint Site Templates VS. Solution Features

September 25, 2008

I've been putting a few development standards together recently to drive the way things are done in a SharePoint development environment. One of the discussions that introduced discussion was Site Templates. Site Templates can be created from the Web User Interface or SharePoint Designer. A Site Template is a .stp file, that renamed to .cab file contains various elements that make up a Site Ins more...

 

SharePoint + Silverlight = ?

September 16, 2008

I attended the Perth SharePoint User Group meeting today kindly presented by Young Oh of ReachPoint title "SharePoint + Silverlight = ?". Young covered: Silverlight – What, How, and Why? Silverlight for SharePoint – extending SharePoint capabilities with Silverlight SharePoint for Silverlight – developing Silverlight applications using SharePoint object model and content datab more...

 

SharePointMagazine.net: Leveraging the SharePoint Platform (Part 2)

September 2, 2008

So I've posted the second part in my series on SharePointMagazine.net. Big thanks goes out to Richard Greene and Ryan Liu for reviewing my post before I submitted it to Arno Nell's online magazine. Looking forward to some great debates that hopefully are triggered from me putting my thoughts on Quick wins etc. out there into the SharePoint wild! Starting to write the third part now, so wishing more...