Hi, I’m Craig Bailey and this is my personal blog where I write about technology, business systems, HubSpot and general life experiences. You can read my posts here.

(If you are looking for the Content is King post by Bill Gates it is here)

I’m involved with three agencies in Sydney:

  • The first is XEN Systems. We help government departments and mid-large B2B technology companies with their sales and marketing strategy, including implementation and training in HubSpot 
  • The second is XEN Create. We provide premium graphic design services to companies, with a focus on using the latest AI tools, including Midjourney
  • The third is XEN Solar, where we help high quality solar companies (dealers, installers) with their sales and marketing processes.

I also co-host HubShots, the podcast and YouTube show focussed on getting the most out of HubSpot. We are the creators of the HubShots Framework.

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VFP: More OzFox Stuff – Craig Boyd keynote

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Two of the mini-highlights of the conference were the OzFox Lite promo and keynote by Craig Boyd. I’ve now copied both up to the web site for your enjoyment. The promo is roughly 3MB and can be found here. The opening keynote is 22MB and can be found here.  Visual FoxPro Rocks! Enjoy. There are other links being added as well (check out the News page) www...

VFP: Threader code again

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UPDATE: Threader code and presentation links are now available from my Threader page. Not sure why the previous post got chopped, but here it is again… The code from my session on simulating multi-threading in VFP (Visual FoxPro) is available from my Threader page  the OzFox site (go to the Session descriptions page here and scroll to the bottom). I had a whole bunch of suggestions over...

VFP: Threader code from OzFox Lite is available

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The code from my session on simulating multi-threading in VFP is available from the OzFox site (go to the Session descriptions page here and scroll to the bottom). I had a whole bunch of suggestions over the weekend to improve it, so I may update this in the coming weeks. Also, check out the great OzFox Lite promo (that Craig Boyd put together) shown in the opening session of...

NET: CodeCampOz and CodeCampNZ

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Developers around Australia and New Zealand, you should be making your way to one of the code camps coming up in late April. For Australian devs I can wholeheartedly recommend CodeCampOz, co-organised by Greg Low, one of our speakers at OzFox Lite. I was there last year and can tell you it is a great place to learn about .Net, SQL Server and BizTalk. I anticipate this year’s Code Camp...

VFP: OzFox is over – Visual foxPro conference

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And before you knew it, it was over… Well, we certainly had a great time over the weekend.For anyone looking to make contact with the speakers, here is a quick overview of how to contact some of them:Adam CoganGreg LowAndrew CoatesChris SaintySunny ChandraJohn BurrowsPaul HemansLarry McIntoshEkasenn TjhauwRahul Desai I will be posting session notes during the week as I receive...

VFP: OzFox is go

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I’m writing this at the end of the first day of OzFox Lite. Andrew Coates is in the home stretch of his talk on VFP and SQL Express. After this we head out to dinner and then some Xbox 360 action (yes Microsoft have come through with a 360!). All in all I am extremely pleased with the first day. Greg Low kicked us off with an overview of the great developer tools in SQL...

VFP: Capturing screen images

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A great post by Cesar Chalom referring to code from Brazilian Gelson Bremm. post has code for using VFP to capture screen portions via Win 32 calls. No other controls required.  Cesar has been putting out a bunch of GDI+ articles over the last 2 months. Well worth checking out.;

VFP: OzFox Lite is on this weekend

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Yes, only a few days to go until OzFox.www.ozfox.com.au I guess if you’ve been reading my blog then you don’t need reminding about all the great stuff that is happening at the conference. But in case you are looking for a quick summary of reasons to come (say, to tell a friend), then here are my top reasons to attend: 1. SessionsWe have Australia’s two Microsoft...

VFP: Andy Kramek’s Better Code

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Andy’s articles are one of the reasons I like blogs so much. These days most of my learning comes from blogs due to their easily readable, small bite, immediately available format. I find the published formats less attractive these days (sadly I usually have a pile of FoxTalks, Advisors and other mags gathering dust on my desk). But that is a discussion for another day… Back...

SQL: Top 10 Complaints

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I know I’m a bit late on this one (yep, way behind on my blogs) but I agree with Alex Feldstein that this is pretty funny. favourite comment however was the note about using TRUNCATE TABLE to shorten the name of tables. Priceless!(I added my comment at the end of the post too.)

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