The Productive Programmer

Anyone who develops software for a living needs a proven way to produce it better, faster, and cheaper. This session offers critical timesaving and productivity tools that you can adopt right away, no matter what platform you use. I 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
• Pick the right editor and assemble the best tools for the job

This isn’t theory, but the fruits of my 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.