Software Developer

Parallels Shared Network Not Working on VM

Here’s a new one.. I changed my CPU/Memory config for a Parallels VM on my Mac today, and when I started back up, it said it had no network. It was working before I reduced the CPUs and RAM I allocate it…

The Value of Professional Judgment

Appreciating the Importance of Professional Judgment in Choosing…

How to Be Really Awesome at Your Job and Not Be A Complete Jerk

The Much-Maligned Docs

I’m old enough to remember when Agile was still a newish thing in software development, at least before it became more…

The Dystopian World of Metrics Gone Wild

Metrics can be useful, but rarely are when it comes to…

Solved: Visual Studio Stuck “Calculating project dependencies…” Forever

If you are having a problem with Visual Studio 2017 seemingly forever “Calculating project dependencies…” when doing a Clean or Rebuild, or maybe you’re opening a solution, and it gets stuck “Preparing…

What’s Your Fiction?

We all have stories we tell ourselves and about ourselves, but are they all true? I’ve worked at a good few places in my time, and most of them have ways of talking about themselves — to themselves and others — that may or may not be as true as they really ought to be.