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"Tool and die makers are a class of machinists who work primarily in toolroom environments—...often in an environment with flexible, semipermeable boundaries from production work."
These are the people that make the tools to make the products. This was the environment I grew up in—watching my father work as a tool and die maker. He could make anything! But more importantly, he knew the value of good tools—even if you had to construct them yourself.
Tools are important and tooling for Web Development is improving! I'll go through a few of my favorites: Node.js, grunt.js, npm, yepnope, SASS, grunticon, Browser devtools, Testing tools, and others.
http://www.nebraskacodecamp.com/Sessions/6
