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

Historic Steve Jobs Key Note

July 18, 2007

I’d never seen this announcement. It was back in the day when Apple announced a partnership with Microsoft…it’s hilarious hearing the reactions from the Apple crowd:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY Found by the rumours here:http://9to5mac.com/August-Aug-7-seventh-iMacs-Apple-Event-ipod-ipod-micro-nano-3450897543  which are about the new iMac, iPods etc.. more...

 

WOW factor

March 19, 2007

Well, I'm over the WOW factor of Vista and have just rolled back and installed Windows XP Pro. Vista was slow (even with 2Gb RAM), the graphics are irrelevant when you want to actually do work, IE7 froze a lot, Outlook 2007 froze a lot, a ROM upgrade to my O2 XDA Atom rooted my device so I had to roll back to XP to reinstall the ROM properly. So all in all! I really can't see why you'd want to mo more...

 

Finally the Apple iPhone comes out!

January 9, 2007

Well, it's taken long enough to get here...but the iPhone is out!First impressions...the battery life is going to be terrible! With all those components onboard it's going to drain very quickly and normal consumers won't be used to charging everyday! I'm used to it with my O2 XDA Atom, but it's taken some time and is still inconvenient. People will think it is an advantage having one device but o more...

 

Apple buys Multi-touch patent

March 26, 2006

Anyone who's seen Tom Cruise in Minority Report and gone..."man I want that screen"...are that bit closer. Apple have bought the patent for this awesome multi-touch screen technology which is shown off in this video. Again, the link is on Google Video which seems to be getting more and more take up. Interestingly it can also be found at YouTube which even Bill Gates was happy to promote more...