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It’s rewarding to be able to take on and complete the building of a connected IoT solution. Yet, this is except when someone is breathing down your neck and pushing you to do more and in less time. However, that person might understand the complexity of the problem you are working on. In this case, he should either be offering assistance or leave you alone.

There is one type of assistance you would probably welcome. It is having an access to a tool or service that could help you through the more difficult parts of a project. These tools could take on tasks that otherwise consume an inordinate amount of your time.

We’ve gathered together several tools that will make your life easier. They can take on project management tasks that are time-consuming, but still have to be done. In addition, we’ve selected a developer’s tool that’s a huge time saver.

monday.com

A quality team management tool like monday.com is helpful in so many ways. It’s ability to track and manage repetitive tasks can save you a ton of time, it can save you the time and expense of having to deal with tasks that might have fallen through the cracks, and its team-building potential, while often underestimated, is very real.

monday.com is also colorful and intuitive, two features that also tend to be overlooked until you try it for yourself. You’ll like the flexibility and overall performance this team management tool offers as well as the lack of bothersome limitations or restrictions.

The size of your team certainly won’t be a restriction. Whether your team consists of yourself and one other person or involves hundreds or even thousands of developers, stakeholders, and other contributors doesn’t matter. You can also adjust monday.com to fit your workflow; instead of the other way around.

Maybe it’s time to invest in a tool that makes its users feel empowered, encourages transparency, and boosts collective productivity.

Waypoints

Waypoints is a software library that developers can use when seeking more efficient ways to add certain functionalities like scrolling animations and other features to their website layouts. Waypoints offers an easy way to trigger a particular function when scrolling to an element on a page.

Waypoints is free. The only action you need to take is to download it. Once you do that, it’s a simple matter to access the library and select a build that will best suit the task at hand. The Shortcut section is particularly useful in that it features scripts for commonly accessed Waypoint uses such as Infinite Scroll, Sticky Elements, and Inview. These scripts can then be packaged into ready-made extensions.

Waypoints is not only a handy developer’s tool, it’s a genuine time saver serving a variety of purposes.

AND CO from Fiverr

First off: AND CO is completely FREE. But the size of its user base can be an excellent indicator of the performance you can expect from a project management product or service. AND CO’s user base consists of more than 100 thousand businesses, agencies, freelancers, and studios scattered around the globe.

Whether the platform of your choice is Android, iOS, the Web, or all three, you can use this software solution to run your entire business. The list of features is more than impressive. Suffice it to say, the more of them you take advantage of, the more extra time you’ll have to devote to what’s important to you.

AND CO performs a variety of task management services including time tracking, invoicing, expense tracking, and payments management. It will also help you design customized proposals and set up a recurring payment system.

TMS-Outsource

This service-oriented agency serves as a hub for developing web applications. The TMS-Outsource staff is well-versed in a host of programming languages and will select the language or combination of languages best suited for your application.

Their development methodology is based on years of experience working with Agile SCRUM methods and processes.

Nutcache

 The Nutcache app handles Agile/Scrum development and manages story backlogs throughout the project lifecycle, from inception through testing to final billing.

You can also link your GitHub commits to your Nutcache stories and keep track of code changes made to every iteration.

Nutcache will keep your project data safe and secure by storing it in a safe place until its needed, at which time it’s available to you on demand.

Tips on How to Become a Better Developer

Becoming a “kick-ass programmer” is a worthy goal, but it’s something you have to really work at. Fortunately, there are three key guidelines you can follow. They will make the journey much easier.

These three guidelines are not all that complicated or hard to follow, and here they are:

1. Read code – lots of it. Lots of reading can help you advance in almost any profession. When you read other’s code you’ll discover how they solve problems. You can treat their solutions as lessons to help you solve the ones you encounter.
2. Write lots of code. Writing personal code has an advantage that writing for others does not. It gives you complete freedom to try new ideas, techniques, and algorithms out. What you learn can increase your marketability.
3. Don’t stop once you’ve written software that meets the spec. Keep going. An iteration or two (or more) will only make the code better. Clients always appreciate “better”.

Conclusion

The only downside to putting one of these tools in practice is wondering why you didn’t do so earlier. Life as a developer is like that sometimes. The upside is, when you do come across a promising new solution or resource, it can be a very rewarding feeling.

We hope you’ll find something here that will give you that feeling.

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