That has been very interesting and has added some variety to my work. I have provided consulting to lots of other software businesses, mostly 1 day engagements concentrating on marketing.

I started offering a consulting service in January 2008. But mostly I do it because I like writing, when I can find the time. It has had over 2 million hits to date and has been helpful for promoting my consulting. I have sold over 40,000 licences with revenue well into 7 figures (£) to date. PerfectTablePlan has exceeded all my expectations and is still selling well. It was very rough and ready, but I sold my first licence in less than 24 hours. I released v1 of my table planner software PerfectTablePlan at the end of February 2005. I was a techie and had very little experience on the business, sales and marketing side of things. I learnt a lot and met some great people, but I yearned to strike out on my own. I developed systems in FORTRAN, C and then C++ for operational research, satellite image processing, printed circuit board design, environmental modelling and distributed systems. I did a physics degree and then worked full-time as an employee for nearly 20 years. Coincidentally it is also my 49th birthday, so it is perhaps a good time for a bit of reflection. I have been running my own one-man software company for 10 years today. But now you officially suck.Īlso, is it any wonder digital certificates are such a rip-off when one company is allowed to own so much of the market? Symantec, I have always hated your bloated software. Final thoughtsĪs an owner of a small software business I spend too much time dealing with annoying crap like this. This was fairly straightforward with my hosting provider 1&1.

So you probably want to check from more than one computer. On my Windows development machine Eset anti-virus seems to override the SSL certificate used by Chrome, so the console message did not appear. But my website was not affected (which uses a Godaddy SSL certificate). My website was affected (it uses a Geotrust SSL certificate provided by my ISP, 1&1).

If you see something like the below, then you are affected.

Go to Developer tools ( View>Developer>Developer tools from the menu bar) and look at the Console.

Navigate to the https version of your website.

Not good! The first beta of Chrome 70 is expected in September. If you are affected by this then your website SSL certificate won’t work for Chrome version 70 or later and visitors are going to see an ugly warning like the one below. This comes after “Symantec had entrusted several organizations with the ability to issue certificates without the appropriate or necessary oversight”. Google have decided to “ deprecate Chrome’s trust in the Symantec certificate authority (including Symantec-owned brands like Thawte, VeriSign, Equifax, GeoTrust, and RapidSSL)“.

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