Hi, I’m Craig Bailey and this is my personal blog where I write about technology, business systems, HubSpot, marketing strategy 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:
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.
I’ve been going through the Barnardos (a kid’s charity) annual report. Part of the reason for reviewing the report is to ensure our dollars are used the best they can be – ie are we getting the best ‘return’ on our charitable ‘investment’.[Sorry if this sounds too clinical, but with over 1,000 registered charities in Australia, I think you need to be...
Blogger informs me that this is my 200th post. So, how fitting that I can use this milestone to announce a special bonus about OzFox Lite…Thanks to the generosity of Microsoft and in particular Andrew Coates for his great support, I am pleased to say that the registration fee for OzFox Lite will be zero. I’m really glad we can do this, and make OzFox Lite very code-camp like...
During my holidays this week I watched a documentary on the making of Hysteria – one of the classic rock albums of all time. I was stunned to learn of all the trials the band had to overcome in order to get this album out. It took 4 years, required firing the first two producers and ofcourse includes the horrific crash in which drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm.My favourite part is...
You’ve probably seen Craig Boyd’s State of the Language address already, but I want to link to it anyway. I have nothing to add – he says it all.
Thanks to Craig Boyd for summarising the FoxPro conferences this year (and I note Milind has done likewise here). Note that in the comments on Craig Boyd’s post there is a pointer to the Brazilian conference coming in the ‘1st Semeter of 2006’. [As an aside, it would be nice if we could pick up comments via RSS as updates to a post – perhaps this is something...
You’ve probably seen the TIOBE index mentioned again in the chatter on UT. VFP is up to 16 now.Whilst this is encouraging I’d have to say that having Visual FoxPro above VB.Net (it is at 19) doesn’t sound right to me. Not that I want to sound negative, rather just brace yourself in case Tiobe reviews their index calc in coming months.The interesting thing for me in the index was...
I’m having a break for a week. This is one of my ‘forced’ holidays. Basically I have a habit of overdoing it workwise and then falling over with burnout. Not that I’m a workaholic or anything, rather I just don’t get any internal warning when I am about to crash. So, I decided this year to schedule in a week of forced holiday every 3 months, even if I didn’t...
A very interesting chat with Sydney based Adam Cogan on .Net Rocks. The focus is on using rules (I’d prefer to call them guidelines) in your software development company. Many of the rules are project management and marketing based, aswell as Coding and Naming convention standards, so this is a great resource for any software house (ie you don’t have to be .Net based necessarily)...
will be of limited interest, although my wife will love it. When we were in Switzerland this time last year Michele spent a weekend down at CERN – she was in her element there.
Rick Schummer writes about the importance of testing your installers on a non-dev machine. I couldn’t agree more. Especially important is the uninstall process which he also highlights. I shake my head though at how complex the install process has become. I liked this guy’s comments about installing an app – why can’t we just copy over a folder like we did in the good...