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

Issues from the field: SharePoint Development Environment Limitations

February 24, 2009

There has been some debate on the OzMoss List Serve here in Australia regarding the inability to develop with SharePoint on an XP/Vista machine properly. The reason for this requirement by so many people is because of the controls put in place by organisation dictating that Developers HAVE to use an SOE workstation and typically these are locked down to XP/Vista and only have 2Gb RAM. Common S more...

 

jQuery: the SharePoint Band Aid

February 23, 2009

Ok, so now I've got your attention you eager beaver SharePoint End Users...Power Users...etc. I thought I'd just put a few things out there from the other side of the fence! So there's lots of hype around jQuery and SharePoint on various resources such as EndUserSharePoint.com and some of my other personal SharePoint Developer heroes: Joel Oleson, Jan Tielens, Waldek Mastykarz, Nick Swan, Paul G more...

 

The Ultimate SharePoint Development Tool and the new release of VSeWSS 1.3 CTP and STSDev 2008 v2.0

February 22, 2009

I've been tweeting lately on SharePoint Development tools and @MattBremer kindly pointed out that STSDev 2008 v2.0 was released last week. What is STSDev? STSDev codeplex project originally started by the Ted Pattison Group David Mann is currently the lead on this although there have been no updates for a long time. STSDev v1.3 is a stable product which is widely used across the community, alo more...

 

VSeWSS 1.3 CTP - why does it require SQL access?

February 21, 2009

So the new VSeWSS 1.3 CTP creates a Web Application to host a WCF web service. Nice to see the SharePoint Development Product team playing with new technology. In my experience of installing it into a Development environment where I follow Least Priviledged installation approach recommended by Microsoft I found that you'll receive an error when trying to Package any VSeWSS Project in Visual Studi more...

 

How we did WA.com with SharePoint WCM - Perth SharePoint User Group February Presentation Web Cast

February 20, 2009

Cross Posted here   It's great to finally get round to posting up a webcast of our Perth User Group for those that couldn't make it either due to living the other side of the World or being flat out at work!   I spent the best part of the flight over to Sydney syncing the PowerPoint slides to the voice recording I made. I've watched through it and it's a great presentation to keep referrin more...

 

Some advice for SharePoint Community Bloggers to up their game!

February 20, 2009

I've noticed that there are plenty of bloggers out there that don't have a few social networking tools hooked up as well as some obvious tweaks. This will not only encourage more traffic to their own blog but also help the community to spread the word! So here goes: Full Posts in RSS Feed Don't cut your posts to summary fields in RSS feeds. If people want to pull down all the communities posts more...

 

SharePoint Link Love 21-Feb-2009

February 20, 2009

Understanding SharePoint: List Forms « SharePoint Internals - Hristo Pavlov’s Blog Custom code with SharePoint Online and Windows Azure Why Your Vendor Screwed Up Your SharePoint Project - Elumenotion Blog Performance, Scalabilty and Architecture - Java and .NET Application Performance Management (dynaTrace Blog) » SharePoint: Performance Problem with Look more...

 

SharePoint Link Love 20-Feb-2009

February 19, 2009

Kristian Kalsing: EP/MOSS portal technology strategies SharePoint and TDD – The other view | Agile Sharepoint development by 21apps and Andrew Woodward MVP Sending alerts to groups in Sharepoint 2007 « Gavin’s Sharepoint Blog SPTDD: SharePoint and Test Driven Development, Part One - Eric Shupps Simple SCRUM with SharePoint 2007 and Outlook 2007 more...

 

The SharePoint Implementation Market needs to grow up!

February 15, 2009

We've all watched the industry make the most of the "SharePoint boom" that Microsoft has created by releasing SharePoint 2007 in 2006. This led to various problems in the market surrounding the product. How did this unravel? significant issues in the initial RTM release no governance up front by Microsoft on how to implement solutions on top of SharePoint immature SharePoin more...

 

SharePoint Community Content - Where to find it

February 15, 2009

Blogs / RSS Feeds I am subscribed to over 500 active SharePoint blogs from around the World and try and ensure that I keep up with my reading on these on a daily if not weekly basis (depending on how busy I am). I find this is the only way to keep up with developments within the community. There are some blogs that constantly produce awesome content and I have had to start prioritising which b more...

 

SharePoint Link Love 07-Feb-09

February 6, 2009

Now available: 0.2.4.0 alpha for Orcas RTM - LINQ to SharePoint SPDiag Tool Released - Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog VSeWSS 1.3 CTP Feedback and Feature Requests - Corey Roth - DotNetMafia.com - Tip of the Day Site Life Cycle Management V2 .. Why V2? - Robin | zevenseas | SharePoint Blog Download details: Of more...

 

FREE Technical Training by Readify in Perth, WA

February 5, 2009

February RDN | Perth Wednesday 25 February, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Cliftons, Australia Place, Corner St Georges Terrace & William Street, Perth ReadiPrimer* Topic: ‘UX: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly’ Presented by Quinten Miller, Senior Consultant – Readify In this ReadiPrimer session, Quinten Miller will identify common UX faux pas and how to best avoid them.  He will discuss design more...

 

SharePoint Link Love 02/05/2009

February 5, 2009

Eric Kraus' SharePoint/.NET Blog : Filter SharePoint Event Log Entries Demystifying SharePoint CSS Links - Elumenotion Blog Sharepoint Training: Sharepoint Portal Server Training Kristian Kalsing: Positioning SharePoint against competing products Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007 Two SharePoint Exp more...