[mattmcknight]

My approach to this is that my creativity and expertise lie in creating unique software. I am not out there to build a web server, so I look for the stuff that is commonly used, well documented, and has easily googlable problems. I try to learn them really well. I stick with the stuff that works. With small open source things, I have been known to pull in the code and get going with it myself...

Here are mistakes I see people make that I try to avoid: 1) Making decisions on technology before they have actually tried it. 2) Upgrading to the latest version of products too often. For every problem it fixes... 3) Fail to give developers system administrator access rights. Nothing worse than not being able to install stuff, but it happens all the time.