This is part 2 of dealing with Microsoft’s SmartScreen Filter. You can find the first part here.
I figured the best way to deal with SmartScreen filter was to get Mini-Compressor Windows 7 certified. Windows 8 had just been released but I figured if I could get Windows 7 certified upgrading to Windows 8 certification shouldn’t be a problem. At the time I had not tested Mini-Compressor on Windows 8 but I had done lots of testing on Windows 7.
[Read More]Some of you have asked for a little more detail on our physical workspace, as an extension on our series - working with a spouse.
This may be taken as a belated February Hallmark Holiday post.
Our basement-based office is in the basement. We cannot make this clearer when we say only one of us gets the window seat. As in, there is only one window seat. I like the afternoon sun hitting me as I, ahem, analyze businesses. Chris doesn’t like it near him as he develops software. I got the window seat.
[Read More]If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat!
- Pink Floyd, Another Brick in the Wall
Microsoft’s SmartScreen Filter is the bane of small Independent Software Vendors (ISV) everywhere. Maybe that is a little harsh, and I have no proof that SmartScreen Filter is a problem for other ISVs, but it has, and as of this writing, still is a problem for Saturday Morning Productions. Besides, that first sentence is a good sensationalist sentence, perfect for a newspaper article or blog post.
[Read More]To continue our series on working with a spouse, today we explore how we physically work together and physically live together.
Disclaimer: this blog post is not meant to replace marriage counselling.
Work space
We share a work space, but not 100% of the time. Our contracts take us to client sites a few days a week. When our schedules coincide and we both end up in the basement at the same time, we still manage to get work done. Chris is incredibly focused, and I have my headphones to help with my focus.
[Read More]I’m taking part in Movember again this year. Why, you ask? Why not, I say. I get to grow a moustache, help change the face of men’s health, and annoy my wife with my awesome facial hair. That’s why. Well actually, there is another reason. I’m getting close to the mandatory prostate exam age and, well I think my “official” Movember reason says it best:
“I hope the Movember money is used to build a diagnostic tool that doesn’t involve sticking things where the sun doesn’t shine. Like a Star Trek Tricorder.”
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