I've never been a big fan of auto generated code, a bit silly maybe since I've used MenuMachine for a long time to build most of my menus in GoLive. When it comes to server side code though, I have this strange idea that I'm "cheating" if I use the built in code generation in DW.
A week ago I decided to buy the "Super Suit" from webassist.com, a 50% discount offer can talk me into buying just about anything! :-) (I think the offer expires today, November 27, 2007)
Using it has been an interesting experience. In some situations I've actually found myself hand coding faster than I could produce the same result with the extensions. I guess that, to some extent, has to do with me not being accustomed with the webassist user interface and workflow. Another explanation could be that some extensions seem to be targeted towards user's who can't code while other products are made to enhance the code writer's productivity.
Some of the extensions have been fantastic time savers. One example is the common task of building and admin page where a user can search for, add, delete and edit database records. The webassist extension enabled me to build this in just a few minutes, it generated the pages, the forms and everything else needed, very impressing!
The webassist extensions have, no doubt, increased my productivity. I will return to this topic later, after using the webassist extensions for some time. If you are interested and want to check out the different extensions, product demos and recipes, please visit webassist.com
