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.
Like many people I was hoping that Vista SP1 would fix the issue with Views in Windows Explorer changing randomly. But alas, it didn't. Gee, must be a big bug. Anyway, there is a registry hack that fixes it – sort of. It doesn't actually fix it, rather it just sets all the folders undefined, which in effect will keep them at the current view. To enable it you'll need to add a...
Last week I spoke at my first media event. Which was kinda fun. Here's what happened. As part of the Microsoft Heroes Happen Launch event last week, Microsoft put on a media event. It was all organised by their PR company (in this case Howorth Communications) and involved getting a few key Microsoft executives (Martin Gregory and Bob Kelly) plus a few clients (5 in this case) to tell of their...
Mick’s post on his recent BizTalk RFID training course is great news of course, but the snippet that caught my eye was this. When talking about customer uptake of RFID, here’s the approach that got a good response. He quotes Scott Allen (a Microsoft Technical Specialist): Scotty inspired me with his take on BizTalk RFID – he said "If you tell clients we’ve got a show...
I really like the new Office Live Workspace concept. Not ground breaking, but very slick. Easy to use and pretty fast. Integrates with three of your apps (Word, Excel and PowerPoint). It’s still in Beta (isn’t everything these days?) but seems very solid on first usage. Easily share workspaces with your friends, customers and community links. It is similar to SkyDrive in use, but in a...
A great little post by Grant on how to deal with ‘Blockers’.
I loved the anecdote about a company policy for running virus scan on everyone’s machine at 11am daily.
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I had the pleasure of speaking as part of Dave Glover's session in the Visual Studio track at last Thursday's Microsoft Wave launch in Sydney. Dave's session was on some of the new productivity enhancements in Visual Studio 2008. In my spot I covered off the experiences we've had with the 2008 stack at Elcom. In particular I outlined how we, as a software development company...
This one has caught out people for ages, so I thought I'd clarify that it IS possible to connect to SQL Server 2005 Developer edition over a network. The problem is that the Express and Developer versions of SQL Server 2005 turn OFF remote access by default (Standard and Enterprise have it ON by default). That's why out-of-the-box you can't connect over a network to it. But it's...
NOTE: I meant to get this out last week but you may have noticed my link blog was down for the best part of a week :-( Microsoft has released a list of programs that are affected by Vista SP1. Not much to worry about, as most have newer versions available that support SP1. Zone Alarm and the NYT Reader are probably the main ones that will interest people. (via ZDNet) Thankfully, I've...
Another monster meeting at SBTUG this month. Presentations Our first presentation has Mike Culver (Amazon Evangelist) talking about Amazon Web Services. Come along and learn how more than a quarter of a million developers are taking advantage of building applications on the back of Amazon's infrastructure. Following Mike will be Steve Riley, Senior Security Strategist with Microsoft, talking...
We've done a little more testing of our product on the Microsoft 2008 stack and I'm pleased (and a little worried) with the results. The pleasing part: we are now showing results on the 2008 stack as being 16X faster than the 2003/2005 stack. The worrying part: results of 16X faster are very high – what if we've tested something incorrectly… So, the goal of this post is to...