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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Round up of recent Elcom blogs

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Brad Marsh has a good post on Windows 2008 firewall settings
Angus McDonald discusses new VB9 stuff
Sam Fu considers the Application Domain
Summer Hu has stacks of stuff, here's an example talking about System.AddIn
Alan Lee talks about Windows Server 2008 RC0
Technorati Tags: Elcom, Bloggers

SBTUG: Wed 30 Jan – Understanding PR, and SQL Server 2008

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Only two weeks until The Sydney Business & Technology User Group (SBTUG) kicks off for 2008. And what a great return meeting we have lined up. Business On the business side of things, Cecelia Haddad will be giving us an overview of PR. The whole public relations side of business is a mystery to many, so this session will be especially relevant for business owners. Cecelia has more than 15...

Get FeedDemon for free

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Just in case you missed the announcement last week, you can now get FeedDemon for free. Thanks Newsgator.
I've been using FeedDemon for over 3 years now and swear by it.
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.NET Framework 3.5 source code released

Scott Guthrie has announced the release of source code for some of the .NET framework libraries. This is fulfilling his promise from October last year.
Shawn Burke has a detailed post on how to set up debugging in Visual Studio 2008.
Scott Hanselman has a few pointers on what to expect.
Technorati Tags: .NET Framework, Source code

RFID tags in prisoners

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I wasn't going to resume posting to this link blog until next week, but this news item caught my eye and couldn't wait… Those cur-a-zee guys in the UK government are talking about putting RFID tags in prisoners. That way they can track where the prisoners are, study patterns etc. Human rights groups are a little concerned of course and no doubt the discussion will get sidetracked...

TIP: Using IE7 Quick Tabs

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IE7 has a nice thumb view list of all your currently open tabs. That’s it there, right next to the first tab. Click on it or type Ctrl + Q to give you this – a thumbnail of each of the sites you have open. Simply click on the thumbnail you wish to switch to. To obvious you say? Yep, but after using IE7 for ages, I only just noticed it a little while back. So, as usual it sits under...

ELCOM: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008

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Elcom is all 2008. The Elcom web site is now running on a Windows 2008 Server, with SQL Server 2008 as the back-end and Community Manager.NET completely recompiled under Visual Studio 2008 (targeting the 3.5 Framework) delivering the content. Community Manager.NET is Elcom’s content management system (CMS), which we have now re-compiled, tested and released on the .NET 3.5 Framework. Now...

TIP: Saving Tab Groups in IE7

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A feature I like in IE7 and use all the time is the Save as Tab Group function. If you have a bunch of sites open and want to save them for later review, simply Add the whole set of Tabs as a Group in your favourites. Later when you want to open the sites again, simply go to Favourites, choose the Tab group, right click and Open as a Tab Group I usually save a whole bunch of open links to a...

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