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: FoxShow #37 – Rod Miller interview

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A great show from Andrew MacNeill with an interview of Rod Miller from dbi-Tech. There are a couple of points that grabbed my attention: 1. dbi-Tech are not after a quick bit of marketing, and Rod is no dummy. He is obviously  a considered businessman, so a decision to embrace the VFP community (or to continue to) is not to be dismissed as some off-hand thing – they have...

NET: Code Camp Day 2

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Another informative day at CodeCampOz. The day kicked off with a chat from Paul Glavich about Atlas and some general discussion of Ajax functionality. This was an excellent introduction for me about the details under the covers (my understanding of Atlas had been sketchy at best up until then). Paul is an extremely likeable speaker and yes, I will be buying 3 or 4 copies of your book...

VFP: Sydney Visual FoxPro User Group reminder

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A reminder about the Sydney Visual FoxPro User Group this Wednesday. The site seems to be down at the moment (I am investigating)) so I have repeated the details here:
Wednesday 26 April 20066:30 – 8:30pmMicrosoft Headquarters at North Ryde1 Epping RoadNorth Ryde
Adam Cogan will be presenting on Rules to Successful ProjectsThis is a continuation of his talk at OzFox Lite.

NET: Code Camp Day 1

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A very rewarding day at CodeCampOz today.Castro, Eka, Rahul, Scott and I are all here in Wagga getting our fill of WinFS, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Presentation Framework, LINQ, SharePoint v3, .Net and more.Greg Low and Mitch Denny have done extremely well yet again. The venue is ideal, the sessions are nicely organised, the speakers are good, the pizza for lunch was hot, and the...

VFP: Chris Sainty is blogging about Visual FoxPro

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Christ Sainty blasts onto the blogosphere with some impressive posts: works at Quids, the company who developed the web site and back end systems powering Harris Technology (Australia’s biggest consumer IT site). All written in FoxPro ofcourse.That’s right, Australia’s biggest online IT consumer webstore is all running on FoxPro.  

VFP: Rahul Desai is blogging about Visual FoxPro

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Rahul has a nice little piece on some of his previous work experience with Visual FoxProhttp://nationalcom.com/serendipity/ Yes, VFP is amazing… (And if you caught my earlier post pointing to Rahul’s blog – since removed – then my apologies. He was still testing it for format handling and I announced it too soon.)    

BROWSER: Crazy Browser

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I use Crazy Browser as my browser (it is an IE wrapper). A few people have asked about it, so here’s the link: is freeware and pretty good in my opinion. I haven’t done any comparison of browsers, nor am I am actually recommending it. However I have used it for years and have had no problems.  (And thanks to Eka who put me onto it years ago)  

VFP: Australian FoxPro Developer Network

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Great to see a few more Australian companies have added their details to the Fox Wiki page: case you missed it, at OzFox Lite we were trying to get a list of Australian FoxPro development companies compiled. And I’m hoping someone will take the lead in New Zealand as well. So, please add your details if you haven’t already.

VFP: Adam Cogan speaking at Sydney Visual FoxPro User Group on 26 April

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I’m pleased to remind you that we will have Adam Cogan speaking at the Sydney VFP User Group this month. Adam was one of our top scorers in the evals from OzFox Lite with his excellent session on Rules for Successful Projects Part 1. In his session at UG he will be taking us through the second half of his session ie Rules to Successful Projects Part 2. See you there in 2 weeks time. Mark it...

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