The other week I got the chance to do a talk for the Manchester user group in the UK about the what & why of Sitecore's Accelerate program. It seemed like a topic that was worth summarising here as well, for people who prefer to read their info rather than watch it...
Because of the old maxim "anything you do more than once should be automated", we all find ourselves working with tools to auto-generate projects and solutions for Helix architecture these days. Mostly these tools work fine – but every so often you can bump your head against unexpected behaviour – as I did recently: