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

SharePoint Search and Longitude - Perth SharePoint User Group

January 24, 2009

Clinton Cherry presented at the Perth SharePoint User Group on Tuesday and has kindly put up the slides from the lunchtime meeting. Unfortunately I couldn't make it as I have been on a Australia Institute of Management (AIM): Training and Assessment course to sharpen my skills some more for the SharePoint Development Training I run! Had a great time, lots of stuff to share with my readers on this more...

 

Threat Modelling in the Software Development Lifecycle - Upcoming Security Presentation in Perth

January 24, 2009

A fellow SharePoint Consultant in Perth mentioned that there is an inaugural presentation, jointly organized by Australian Information Security Association (AISA) and Open Web Application Security Project OWASP, being held in Perth for free at The Ernst & Young Building, 11 Mounts Bay Road at 5.15pm on <UPDATE>10th February 2009</UPDATE>. If you are interested please RSVP to per more...

 

SharePoint Unit Testing Guidance and SharePoint Dev Wiki progress!

January 15, 2009

If any of you follow my Twitter feed you would notice that I've been having various discussions with SharePoint people regarding Unit Testing, Mocking and Test Driven Development (TDD). Andrew Woodward (@21Apps) is the leader in the SharePoint TDD field by a long way. I wanted to get some stuff up on the wiki to try and give another angle to this and also leverage the power of the wiki to let pe more...

 

Perth SharePoint User Group on BA-Insight's Longitude

January 11, 2009

Clinton Cherry will be presenting at the Perth SharePoint User group on the 20th January 2009 at 12:30 at Microsoft in QV1 Building. Clinton will be talking about his experiences with BA-Insights Longitude for SharePoint 2007 which is a Seach add-on for the Platform. "'Longitude' is a third party product by BA Insight which extends SharePoint's search capabilities to deliver document page more...