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 December Cumulative Update Error and Resolution

December 20, 2008

Error I ran the CU on my Development Environment and had some errors in my Logs! Central Admin was working fine, but my Web Application wasn't. Action 12.1.5.0 of Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPSearchDatabaseSequence failed. And my web application in IE showed this error: Server error: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=96177 I found this on TeEchNet  with "This is a bug in Microsoft more...

 

My SharePoint Development Best Practices SharePointPodShow Interview is live!

December 15, 2008

Last month I was interviewed by Rob Foster from the SharePointPodShow and we discussed SharePoint Development Best Practices. It was great fun discussing my experiences and back then SharePointDevWiki.com was just a twinkle in my eye! I recommend that you hook these guys up to your iTunes if only to hear my cheery english accent mixed with some aussie slurs! LOL I discuss my 8 part series S more...

 

SharePointDevWiki making great progress!

December 13, 2008

Thanks to everyone that has contributed to the SharePointDevWiki already. It's made great progress since being launched with over 4000 page views and just under 200 page edits already! Check out the activity for yourself here! I've set up a new page on how to support the SharePointDevWiki and would really appreciate it if like minded Developers would add the badge to the site using the code a more...

 

SharePointDevWiki.com comes alive

December 3, 2008

Don't take my word for it....check out the new site! As promised I have managed to pull some strings and get a Atlassian Confluence license and also some hosting space on Tatham Oddie's boxes. Please feel free to submit your comments on the proposed approaches to the content on this wiki...its a community affair after all! Please spread the word on this site by every means possible! Rather than more...