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.

Whitepapers

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

SharePoint Debugging: No symbols loaded

March 10, 2008

I've been reading a lot of posts on how to get debugging going when attaching to the w3wp.exe process. Disable 'Enable Just My Code' in Visual StudioThis blog post started me off in the correct direction by setting the Tools | Options | Debugging setting correctly. Modify the web.config Furthermore, it prompted me to change the web.config value from debug="false" to debug="true&q more...

 

SharePoint hotfixes

November 6, 2007

I subscribed to the OzMoss.com listserve, reluctantly at first because I am so used to RSS feeds for managing my content and not my inbox. So far I've found it very useful, especially as GMail groups the emails together as the thread builds which makes it easier to manage. The RSS feed available for the listserve does not do any grouping of threads which can make it hard to follow especially if more...

 

SharePoint and Records Management

September 14, 2007

As I've mentioned in previous posts...SharePoint is a large product with lots of functionality across six main areas (Portal, ECM, Search, BI, Collaboration and Business Process and forms). As with all the big Vendors in the ECM space, most are strong in some areas and weak in others. SharePoint is by far the strongest in the Collaboration space, but is definately the weakest in Records Managemen more...

 

MOSS 2007 Records Management Review

August 31, 2007

A fellow Solution Architect I work with specialises in Records Management and is on the Professional Records Management Associations boards etc. here in Australia.   I have also been reading through Joel Olsen's Whitepaper on Compliance Features in the 2007 Microsoft Office System that was written back in November 2006.   What I am attempting to do is investigate how the likes of TRIM, Open more...