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

Site Definition Issues - File or arguments not valid for site template 'CustomPortalTemplate#0'

March 31, 2009

I’ve recently had to finally take a look at Site Definitions after always taking the approach of creating a blank site and using Features to build up a site. 03/31/2009 20:32:52.05     Quest.PowerGUI.ScriptEditor.exe (0x102C)    0x11B0    Windows SharePoint Services       General                           8e27    Medium      Ensuring module folder _catalogs/masterpage     03/31/2009 20:32:52.1 more...

 

SharePoint Development with Unit Testing webcast

March 25, 2009

[Cross Post] The web cast is up for last nights user group on SharePoint Development with Unit Testing and here a few links discussed in it to: web cast SharePointDevWiki.com Unit Testing Jeremy Thake's blog (wss.made4the.net) Unit testing sharepoint 2007applications SharePoint Guidance (P&P team) TDD - Eric Shupps - Binary Wave Thanks for those of you who turned u more...

 

SharePoint WCM at Western Australia Tourism Part 2 Web cast

March 17, 2009

[Cross Posted] As promised, I have encoded the presentation that Michael Hanes presented this afternoon and is available for your viewing pleasure. WEBCASTClick here if IFRAME doesn't show Click here to download the web cast A big thanks again for Michael doing the presentation today! Please remember that there is a SharePoint Development with Unit Testing presentation on next Wednesday a more...

 

New SharePoint Development User Group in the evening

March 15, 2009

[Cross Posted] I'd like to thank Domenic Chiera from Microsoft for allowing us to run another User Group meeting on the last Wednesday of every month at the Microsoft Offices. These meetings will be targetted purely at SharePoint Developers, with a strict rule of "Visual Studio only" presentations. Based on feedback, Developers prefer attending after work rather than at lunchtime. It more...