Also, if you wrote it (as often happens in my case), put some effort into getting it open-sourced if possible, so that you can just use it elsewhere later. The

Also, if you wrote it (as often happens in my case), put some effort into getting it open-sourced if possible, so that you can just use it elsewhere later. These days, I very rarely enjoy using tools that aren't open source, or at least generic and very widely available. I simply don't want to spend my limited brain cells learning a piece of software that I won't be able to use in the future. And in any case, large, internally developed tools are usually awful. Unless I wrote them. ;-)