Time Saving Developer Tools

by Matt Petrowsky

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How could anyone ever expect to build a house without a hammer? How about throwing an air compressor and nail gun into the mix? Yeah, that's right, you can get a lot more done in a shorter amount of time when you have more powerful tools.

Every occupation has their tools. Typically, created by people within that profession who needed a faster, better way of doing things. A FileMaker database can quickly become a management nightmare. Adding new fields and relationships for new features is a super common task.

The problem is, how do you know you're not already duplicating effort that may already be present? In this video, I walk through some tools I use and others I've tried. While I may not use them all in daily development work, all of them become super helpful when you need what they provide!