hi and welcome to my blog.

I'm Colin Byrne a SharePoint Architect at Flexnet Consultants based in Surrey UK.

When I was a kid I'd always get myself into trouble by taking apart anything I could, electrical, mechanical it didn't matter, you could follow the trail of screws to the corner where I had successfully taken apart plugs, hoovers, walkmans, irons.

Of course I could never put them back together again but as I was a kid that was someones else problem alas now I'm older its my problem if things don't work after I play with them. Unfortunately for SharePoint i've taken a severe liking to it and the old curiosity is kicking in so I'll be delving into the inner working of SharePoint but along the way hopefuly produce some free WebParts and utilites that can make users and admins life easier.

One of the things I also like to do is make SP sites a lot less static so adding Flash based WebParts with dynamic content is something I like to do. I'll be blogging about developing a SlideShow WebPart using Flash in the future, also new technologies such as AJAX and Atlas, well its not that new SharePoint already uses the XMLHTTP object to save and load WebPart properties but more of that later.

Oh have I mentioned I hate having to do the same thing twice.