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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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

SportsDo

September 21, 2006

Found SportsDo through my daily reading. When I saw the new Apple add-on for your iPod with Nike's new piece of kit...I started thinking more about GPS and my PDA. I had seen some applications that would keep track of your routine via GPS and SportsDo does a damn good job of it! An example here shows a drive through Auckland and shows the start and end points and you can even play the journey s more...

 

Windows Mobile 5.0 low on free storage space

September 19, 2006

Wanted install a new player called PocketPlayer by Conduits. But had an issue with space left on my O2 XDA Atom. Found Keni Barwicks blog post on it which changes where temp directories are stored ... e.g. on external miniSD storage. Which basically extends Fred Pullen's idea.Want to see whether PocketPlayer does Play count on mp3 files...as I did some testing last night and it doesn't on Windows more...

 

What PDA phone? Decisions Decisions

March 29, 2006

Well, I still haven't got my new phone and even though Optus have the 02 XDA Atom in store, it's not on the Insurance list! So my choices are limited and I'm getting really impatient with a pen and paper notepad and a Nokia 8210!I can go the Blackberry route with a 8700g, which would be fine if it had not lacked a external storage slot and capability to play mpgs and mp3s. I'm not worried about i more...