If you have people working off-site, make damn sure they have a separate dev box, set up their way, locked up in a server room, preferably with a way to reset i

If you have people working off-site, make damn sure they have a separate dev box, set up their way, locked up in a server room, preferably with a way to reset it when needed. Laptops do not cut it for development for big corporate C++/C# batch type apps. I managed to snaffle a decent desktop box and sweet-talk IT into burying it in a corner of the server room. And yes, good devs are 'special'! It was worth a lot to me to have a fast dev machine on the other end of a VPN, the crucial thing being that numskulls and nincompoops couldn't reassign it so some bozo could check his email and surf facebook on it.