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by JBerlinsky 5534 days ago
I'm working on a rather large and (in my opinion) unwieldy C#-based project right now that....well....tries. However, when your stack is at a point where a Google Wiki isn't enough to document it adequately, there's an underlying problem, namely that the people I'm working with have reinvented the wheel a few times.

As a developer coming into a new environment/stack, there is nothing worse than having to read through hundreds of pages to figure out how to run unit tests. It's probably as bad, if not worse, than getting the "send an email to ___" treatment.

Keep your stack as simple as possible. New developers may not be experienced with it, but we have this wonderful thing called Google. If you're using common libraries, our Google-fu is strong. If you're reinventing the wheel, you should probably reconsider your stack.