Tools Chest

Tools that helped me while at Flatiron



Here I will share the different things that helped me through my time at Flatiron School

My Editor:
I used Atom for an editor.

Editor Packages:
atom-beautify: Helps with how your code looks.  I used it mostly to clean up html, especially when my <div>s got out of hand.

color-picker: This helped a lot with css.  It allows me to just right click, select a color from a canvas and get the rgb or hex code for it and insert it directly into the editor.

There where others that made my editor neat looking and helped with syntax but those are mostly automatic, the above two where the ones I think I used more than any other.

During Ruby and Rails I had to learn about databases and setting up relationships.  In the beginning it is very helpful to be able to visualize these relationships between tables.  That's where DBeaver came in. It's a  free multi-platform database tool for developers that has one feature that was very helpful.  It would automatically show your relationships between tables so long as you explicitly set the relationships in the database. Only downside is that it isn't as user friendly I would like and takes some practice to get it to work but once you figure it out it's extremely handy.

Simple Screen Recorder: https://github.com/MaartenBaert/ssr
For every project we built we had to do a video walk through. I went with Simple Screen Recorder because it's super light weight, straight forward, free and open source. It's one of those apps that doesn't need bells and whistles.  It does one thing and does it well: records your screen.

Coffee:
Lots and lots and lots of coffee. My doctor is sitting at home right now shaking his head at the amount of coffee I drink during project weeks.


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