There’s something built into us that drives us to automate everything. Every manual thing we don’t have to do frees us up to do something more exciting and useful.

We’ve been successfully using Chef, along with Vagrant, for quite a while now and it has pretty much changed my life. If you’re not already using Vagrant you’re doing it wrong. (Probably.)

Crafting the perfect development environment is difficult. Reproducing this environment for every member of your team, across development machines, running on different platforms and filled up with dependencies from previous projects is even harder.…