[boomzilla]

You never worked with a service oriented environment, right? When you need to override dozens of services your build/local instance depends on, it could easily take a couple of weeks, especially for fresh graduates who used to "./configure && make && sudo make".

[Evbn]

Why don't your configuration files have service client configs on them?

Does it take two weeks to deploy a build to a production machine or the integration test farm? No. Then why would it take two weeks to pushh the code to a dev machine?