John Luif

I’m a very big fan of the use of virtualization.  Virtualization provides a controlled environment and helps get new people to the team contributing value very quickly.  Lately I have noticed a tendency others have when each person on the team is using a copy of the same virtual machine.  This is the tendency to hard code paths! Because hey everyone has the same virtual environment.

This drives me nuts to no end.  Relative paths are very easy to use and maybe it takes an extra few seconds to figure out how to write the script using relative paths but the payoff is huge for the future when you start moving and extending the scripts to do other things.