Advice for a efficient and productive software development environment?

["Razi Garbie" <boneybastard () gmail com>]

Hi list,

Im working in a small software company and i've been thinking of
redesigning the development environment, in terms of
hardware/software.
And was hoping that some of you might have some pointers that lead to
a productive/efficient environment.

I'ts rather unogranized at the time, so i thought of this:
All software developers should have the same hardware in the development boxes.
Setup a ghost server for the devteam, so that people can fetch images
of different OSs/software environment depending on which OS they need
to work in, in a specific project.

I Recently encountered a situation when one member of the team had to
switch OS, and it took a total of 3 days to set it up (including
development environment, software and such),
not so productive. (vmware is not an option).

Setup a hudson server, development boxes acting as slaves for
continious integration.

Please drop your comments and advice.

// Thanks in advance, bny