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.

Craig Bailey presenting

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VFP: Microsoft supports VFP

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I’ve seen a few threads on UT lately where people have been questioning Microsoft’s support for VFP. And I guess this isn’t really a new view for some people.However I’d like to challenge the notion. So, let me list a few of the areas where Microsoft has been supporting me personally, and the VFP community generally, in Australia.As many of you know I helped put together...

VFP: OzFoxRocks! Reloaded

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If you tried to download the first episode of OzFoxRocks in the last few days and gave up because it was taking so long then please try again. Thanks to Andrew Coates and Microsoft we now have the mp3 file hosted on a nice fast site.You can download the file directly herehttp://ozfoxrocks.members.winisp.net/files/ozfoxrocks1.mp3You can check out the full episode listing herehttp://www.ozfoxrocks...

VFP: FoxTabs – the beta is coming

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Scott and I are very thankful for all the support and feedback we’ve had about FoxTabs so far. A number of bugs and some great suggestions have been highlighted.To this end we thought it worth mentioning that we plan to release the Beta in approx 2 weeks time. If you’ve avoided FoxTabs so far (and that is probably wise since it is only an Alpha) then please watch this space for more...

SECURITY: Hotmail + whois = beware

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I thought I’d pass on this anecdote from Magic Dave (one of our techies).We host a fair few websites for clients and sometimes clients transfer sites from other hosts to us. Normally this goes pretty smoothly unless the client’s IT manager who set up all the DNS settings has left the company. Last week we had this problem – the previous IT manager for our client had bought the...

VFP: OzFoxRocks! – Aussie VFP podcast

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Scott and I have started an Australian based Visual FoxPro podcast.In our first episode we interview Andrew Coates. You can check it out here: www.ozfoxrocks.comThe content listing is here: : this is being hosted free of charge by the company we work for (thanks Talman), so for now we are on a server with a less than ideal internet pipe – unfortunately the download will be a little slow...

SVFPUG: Never, ever demo beta stuff

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I had a rather frustrating time at the Sydney VFP UG this week. I had foolishly put myself down to give an overview of SQL Server 2005 based on the Beta 2 version (July CTP I think).It has been sitting on my notebook for a few months now and all seems OK. In fact I have been doing most of my coding for an existing SQL 2000 project using the Management Studio – hey I just like the abililty...

VFP: VFP and Strings

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Very interesting post from Calvin on string performance here and his follow up here.I think this is an important read for all FoxPro programmers for the simple reason that we (arrogantly sometimes I think) can fall into the ‘VFP is great at string manipulation and I don’t have to worry about optimising my code’ trap.Markus and Rod’s post comparing VFP to C# will quickly...

OPINION: Gorillaz CD copy protection sucks

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My wife got the the new Gorillaz CD for her birthday. You know, the one that has a song featured in the iPod ad. Well here’s the thing, it has copy protection technology on the CD that means you can’t rip it onto your iPod. Michele thinks it is ironic. I think it sucks. But here’s the really dumb thing, the CD copy protection technology only works on CD players. Yep, swapped out...

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