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How do you work with front-end developers?

17th November 2010

My answer to How do you work with front-end developers? on Quora

Build them a virtual machine image using VMware or similar that includes ALL of the server stack that they need, pre-installed—then give them detailed written instructions on how to run it and pull the latest versions of the codebase.

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