I expect developers and sysadmins to work together on these things. I'm always confused when they don't, and saddened when people think that's okay. For instan

I expect developers and sysadmins to work together on these things. I'm always confused when they don't, and saddened when people think that's okay. For instance: I wanted to do a few projects in Rails. I made sure that my admins had links, guides, and all the info they needed when I started the project. By the time I was ready to launch, they'd already had Ruby, Passenger, and all my dependent gems installed. Deploy was a breeze. Later, a different coworker did a project in Django, but didn't breathe a word to our sysadmins. When he and the client agreed that it was launch time, our admins were scrambling to figure out what version of Python we needed, how to set up the environment, and what the deployment best practices were. Everyone was angry and the deploy was late, but the developer didn't see any consequences. Kills me.