Your development environment is your culture(jimplush.com)
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Your development environment is your culture
http://jimplush.com/blog/article/189/Your-development-environment-is-your-culture
http://jimplush.com/blog/article/189/Your-development-environment-is-your-culture
Related, I write about what's necessary to onboard any sort of new person to a project (specifically open source, but it would apply to an in-house team onboarding a new employee as well) here: http://opensourcedesign.is/blogging_about/import-designers/
[1]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html