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

Approved Page Layouts not showing in PublishingWeb

June 11, 2008

Had a "great" morning this morning involving releasing to our SharePoint 2007 Production environment which has been in place for nearly 18 months now - 6 server farm. Our UAT environment was built by myself last month which "matches" Production as closely as possible in terms servers etc. but it's been hard because the documentation of how Production built is incomplete. So more...

 

Empower Users to manage Workflow (Part 1)

May 18, 2008

I've repeatedly stated that there are certain areas of the SharePoint 2007 stack that are not true Enterprise level features. Workflow is one of them and various other bloggers and reports have stated this, my research links are a testimony to this. I believe Microsoft have confused the SharePoint community by giving two options with SharePoint Designer (SPD) Workflows and Visual Studio (VS) more...

 

How to prevent derailing SharePoint

May 7, 2008

I've read Paul Culmsee's articles with great interest on Project Failure and will be helping him continue his series in the next few days on Development Failures. Joel Olsen, SharePoint God, also has found keen interest in it and has written some of his own experiences with it. It's interesting to see Joel write externally from Microsoft and it really does show a more open, less reserved appr more...

 

SharePoint and Service Desks - Organisational Responsibilities

May 5, 2008

I attended a great Information Management morning in Perth last week and bumped into a fair few clients that I had engaged with in my previous Pre Sales role working for a Solution Integrator before moving to the dark side working internally in a SharePoint team. One of the guys asked me a question around "What do we need the SI to actually quote on to get SharePoint up and running?" more...