Productive Programmer

Name: Productive Programmer
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ISBN: 9780596519780

ISBN-10: 0596519788

ISBN-13: 9780596519780

Edition: 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Neal Ford, David Bock

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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…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 222
Size: 6.93" wide x 9.17" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Foreword


Preface



Introduction


Why a Book on Programmer Productivity?


What This Book Is About


Where to Go Now?



Mechanics



Acceleration


Launching Pad


Accelerators


Macros


Summary



Focus


Kill Distractions


Search Trumps Navigation


Find Hard Targets


Use Rooted Views


Use Sticky Attributes


Use Project-Based Shortcuts


Multiply Your Monitors


Segregate Your Workspace with Virtual Desktops


Summary



Automation


Don't Reinvent Wheels


Cache Stuff Locally


Automate Your Interaction with Web Sites


Interact with RSS Feeds


Subvert Ant for Non-Build Tasks


Subvert Rake for Common Tasks


Subvert Selenium to Walk Web Pages


Use Bash to Harvest Exception Counts


Replace Batch Files with Windows Power Shell


Use Mac OS X Automator to Delete Old Downloads


Tame Command-Line Subversion


Build a SQL Splitter in Ruby


Justifying Automation


Don't Shave Yaks


Summary



Canonicality


DRY Version Control


Use a Canonical Build Machine


Indirection


Use Virtualization


DRY Impedance Mismatches


DRY Documentation


Summary



Practice



Test-Driven Design


Evolving Tests


Code Coverage



Static Analysis


Byte Code Analysis


Source Analysis


Generate Metrics with Panopticode


Analysis for Dynamic Languages



Good Citizenship


Breaking Encapsulation


Constructors


Static Methods


Criminal Behavior



Yagni



Ancient Philosophers


Aristotle's Essential and Accidental Properties


Occam's Razor


The Law of Demeter


Software Lore



Question Authority


Angry Monkeys


Fluent Interfaces


Anti-Objects



Meta-Programming


Java and Reflection


Testing Java with Groovy


Writing Fluent Interfaces


Whither Meta-Programming?



Composed Method and Slap


Composed Method in Action


Slap



Polyglot Programming


How Did We Get Here? And Where Exactly Is Here?


Where Are We Going? And How Do We Get There?


Ola's Pyramid



Find the Perfect Tools


The Quest for the Perfect Editor


The Candidates


Choosing the Right Tool for the Job


Un-Choosing the Wrong Tools



Conclusion: Carrying on the Conversation



Building Blocks


Index