The Productive Programmer : Theory in Practice (O'Reilly) - Neal Ford

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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 not only offers advice on the mechanics of productivity-how to work smarter, spurn interruptions, get the most out your computer, and avoid repetition-he also details valuable practices that will help you elude common traps, improve your code, and become more valuable to your team.You'll learn to: write the test before you write the code; manage the lifecycle of your objects fastidiously; build only what you need now, not what you might need later; apply ancient philosophies to software development; question authority, rather than blindly adhere to standards; make hard things easier and impossible things possible through meta-programming; be sure all code within a method is at the same level of abstraction; and, pick the right editor and assemble the best tools for the job. This isn't theory, but the fruits of Ford's real-world experience as an Application Architect at the global IT consultancy ThoughtWorks. Whether you're a beginner or a pro with years of experience, you'll improve your work and your career with the simple and straightforward principles in The Productive Programmer.

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Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Why a Book on Programmer Productivity?	p. 2
What This Book Is About	p. 3
Where to Go Now?	p. 5
Mechanics
Acceleration	p. 9
Launching Pad	p. 10
Accelerators	p. 18
Macros	p. 33
Summary	p. 35
Focus	p. 37
Kill Distractions	p. 38
Search Trumps Navigation	p. 40
Find Hard Targets	p. 42
Use Rooted Views	p. 44
Use Sticky Attributes	p. 46
Use Project-Based Shortcuts	p. 47
Multiply Your Monitors	p. 48
Segregate Your Workspace with Virtual Desktops	p. 48
Summary	p. 50
Automation	p. 51
Don't Reinvent Wheels	p. 53
Cache Stuff Locally	p. 53
Automate Your Interaction with Web Sites	p. 54
Interact with RSS Feeds	p. 54
Subvert Ant for Non-Build Tasks	p. 56
Subvert Rake for Common Tasks	p. 57
Subvert Selenium to Walk Web Pages	p. 58
Use Bash to Harvest Exception Counts	p. 60
Replace Batch Files with Windows Power Shell	p. 61
Use Mac OS X Automator to Delete Old Downloads	p. 62
Tame Command-Line Subversion	p. 62
Build a SQL Splitter in Ruby	p. 64
Justifying Automation	p. 65
Don't Shave Yaks	p. 67
Summary	p. 68
Canonicality	p. 69
DRY Version Control	p. 70
Use a Canonical Build Machine	p. 72
Indirection	p. 73
Use Virtualization	p. 80
DRY Impedance Mismatches	p. 80
DRY Documentation	p. 88
Summary	p. 93
Practice
Test-Driven Design	p. 97
Evolving Tests	p. 99
Code Coverage	p. 105
Static Analysis	p. 109
Byte Code Analysis	p. 110
Source Analysis	p. 112
Generate Metrics with Panopticode	p. 113
Analysis for Dynamic Languages	p. 116
Good Citizenship	p. 119
Breaking Encapsulation	p. 120
Constructors	p. 121
Static Methods	p. 121
Criminal Behavior	p. 126
Yagni	p. 129
Ancient Philosophers	p. 135
Aristotle's Essential and Accidental Properties	p. 136
Occam's Razor	p. 137
The Law of Demeter	p. 140
Software Lore	p. 141
Question Authority	p. 143
Angry Monkeys	p. 144
Fluent Interfaces	p. 145
Anti-Objects	p. 147
Meta-Programming	p. 149
Java and Reflection	p. 150
Testing Java with Groovy	p. 151
Writing Fluent Interfaces	p. 152
Whither Meta-Programming?	p. 154
Composed Method and Slap	p. 155
Composed Method in Action	p. 156
Slap	p. 160
Polyglot Programming	p. 165
How Did We Get Here? And Where Exactly Is Here?	p. 166
Where Are We Going? And How Do We Get There?	p. 169
Ola's Pyramid	p. 173
Find the Perfect Tools	p. 175
The Quest for the Perfect Editor	p. 176
The Candidates	p. 179
Choosing the Right Tool for the Job	p. 180
Un-Choosing the Wrong Tools	p. 186
Conclusion: Carrying on the Conversation	p. 189
Building Blocks	p. 191
Index	p. 199
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