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The Productive Programmer

By
Neal Ford
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
July 2008
Pages:
224
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Description
Anyone who develops software for a living needs a proven way to produce it better, faster, and cheaper. The Productive Programmer offers critical timesaving and productivity tools that you can adopt right away, no matter what platform you use. Master developer Neal Ford details ten valuable practices that will help you elude common traps, improve your code, and become more valuable to your team.
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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Introduction

    1. Why a Book on Programmer Productivity?

    2. What This Book Is About

    3. Where to Go Now?

  2. Mechanics

    1. Chapter 2 Acceleration

      1. Launching Pad
      2. Accelerators
      3. Macros
      4. Summary

    2. Chapter 3 Focus

      1. Kill Distractions
      2. Search Trumps Navigation
      3. Find Hard Targets
      4. Use Rooted Views
      5. Use Sticky Attributes
      6. Use Project-Based Shortcuts
      7. Multiply Your Monitors
      8. Segregate Your Workspace with Virtual Desktops
      9. Summary

    3. Chapter 4 Automation

      1. Don’t Reinvent Wheels
      2. Cache Stuff Locally
      3. Automate Your Interaction with Web Sites
      4. Interact with RSS Feeds
      5. Subvert Ant for Non-Build Tasks
      6. Subvert Rake for Common Tasks
      7. Subvert Selenium to Walk Web Pages
      8. Use Bash to Harvest Exception Counts
      9. Replace Batch Files with Windows Power Shell
      10. Use Mac OS X Automator to Delete Old Downloads
      11. Tame Command-Line Subversion
      12. Build a SQL Splitter in Ruby
      13. Justifying Automation
      14. Don’t Shave Yaks
      15. Summary

    4. Chapter 5 Canonicality

      1. DRY Version Control
      2. Use a Canonical Build Machine
      3. Indirection
      4. Use Virtualization
      5. DRY Impedance Mismatches
      6. DRY Documentation
      7. Summary

  3. Practice

    1. Chapter 6 Test-Driven Design

      1. Evolving Tests
      2. Code Coverage

    2. Chapter 7 Static Analysis

      1. Byte Code Analysis
      2. Source Analysis
      3. Generate Metrics with Panopticode
      4. Analysis for Dynamic Languages

    3. Chapter 8 Good Citizenship

      1. Breaking Encapsulation
      2. Constructors
      3. Static Methods
      4. Criminal Behavior

    4. Chapter 9 YAGNI

    5. Chapter 10 Ancient Philosophers

      1. Aristotle’s Essential and Accidental Properties
      2. Occam’s Razor
      3. The Law of Demeter
      4. Software Lore

    6. Chapter 11 Question Authority

      1. Angry Monkeys
      2. Fluent Interfaces
      3. Anti-Objects

    7. Chapter 12 Meta-Programming

      1. Java and Reflection
      2. Testing Java with Groovy
      3. Writing Fluent Interfaces
      4. Whither Meta-Programming?

    8. Chapter 13 Composed Method and SLAP

      1. Composed Method in Action
      2. SLAP

    9. Chapter 14 Polyglot Programming

      1. How Did We Get Here? And Where Exactly Is Here?
      2. Where Are We Going? And How Do We Get There?
      3. Ola’s Pyramid

    10. Chapter 15 Find the Perfect Tools

      1. The Quest for the Perfect Editor
      2. The Candidates
      3. Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
      4. Un-Choosing the Wrong Tools

  4. Chapter 16 Conclusion: Carrying on the Conversation

  1. Appendix Building Blocks

    1. Cygwin

    2. The Command Line

  2. Colophon

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Product Details
Title:
The Productive Programmer
By:
Neal Ford
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Ebook
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
July 2008
Ebook Release:
June 2009
Pages:
224
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-51978-0
| ISBN 10:
0-596-51978-8
Ebook ISBN:
978-0-596-10317-0
| ISBN 10:
0-596-10317-4
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About the Author

  1. Neal Ford

    Neal Ford is an Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. Before joining ThoughtWorks, Neal was the Chief Technology Officer at The DSW Group, Ltd., a nationally recognized training and development firm. Neal has a degree in Computer Science from Georgia State University specializing in languages and compilers and a minor in mathematics specializing in statistical analysis. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, video presentations, and author of the books Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques (Prentice-Hall, 1996), JBuilder 3 Unleashed (Sams, 1999) (as the lead author), Art of Java Web Development (Manning, 2003), and No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology: The 2006 Edition (editor and contributor). His language proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET, Ruby, Object Pascal, C++, and C. His primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. Neal has taught on-site classes nationally and internationally to all phases of the military and to many Fortune 500 companies. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at numerous developer conferences worldwide.If you have an insatiable curiosity about Neal, visit his web site at http://www.nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.

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