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

Latest stories

.NET University

I was lucky enough to meet Doug Turnure last week. He's a Developer Evangelist from Atlanta (USA), who was down under visiting the Aussie DEs. Doug has set up .Net University, and blogs here about the first set of courses offered. I've checked out the WF one so far – I recommend it.
Technorati Tags: Doug Turnure, .NET University

Volta released

V

I popped this on the home page of my site last week, but forgot to link to it here. From my site: The recently released Volta CTP is an example of how Microsoft is helping desktop client developers build web applications. Promoted as a 'tier splitting' technology, the compiler helps spread out the application to client and server tiers, tied together with Volta created 'glue'...

I want a Windows Home Server, or do I?

I

Plenty of blogs about this little baby, but Scott's has some nice piccys. I want one, but I don't really think I'd use it… or is this one of those situations where we look back and wonder how we ever did with out it before…(a la the mobile phone)?
Technorati Tags: Windows Home Server, Scott Hanselman

MVC Contrib

M

Another CodePlex project, this time a set of assemblies to add functionality to Microsoft's recently released MVC functionality in the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview. Go get it at . Speaking of MVC goodness, Angus McDonald gave us an internal training session on MVC details at Elcom yesterday. He blogs about MVC here. (via Jeffrey Palermo with Eric Hexter)  Technorati Tags: MVC, Jeffrey...

TFS dog fooding and memory issue admissions

T

It's always good to see a company use their own product, and when it comes to TFS Microsoft has really excelled. Brian Harry details the current stats, including 300,000 work items across 148 million files. Especially impressive (to me) is how transparent the company is – they detail the memory management issues they are having due to the server cache of over 5 million files putting a...

FACEBOOK: Is no more

F

Brace yourselves kiddies, because the rash of lame link-bait post titles like the one above has started. For those not on Facebook, this will be meaningless, but for those who are, then you’ll have noticed that the mandatory ‘is’ from the status updates was removed* earlier this week. Yay! No more having to use ‘is’ on all your updates. We can rest easy now. INSERT...

The Nokia Scrum test

T

Joe Little's post about the Nokia scrum Test is interesting. His comments on keeping it simple are valid too. My only comment: Find me a company that manages to stop Project Managers disrupting the flow (his last bullet point in the second list), and you've found yourself a rare (and wonderful) environment. I suspect real world occurrences of this are scarce. Technorati Tags: Agile...

Archives