This document discusses various development tools in Scala that can increase programmer productivity, including SBT for build automation and dependency management, Scalatest for unit testing, and g8 and conscript for project generation. It also provides an overview of Scala frameworks for web development, NoSQL, and more. Finally, it demonstrates using g8, SBT, and pack to generate, build, and package a Scala project that integrates with the Google URL Shortener API.