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The Productive Programmer
by
Neal Ford (Goodreads Author)
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 th...more
Paperback, 226 pages
Published
July 10th 2008
by O'Reilly Media
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The book's intention is to help jobbing programmers get more productive by remembering what the command line is for - the GUI's and IDE's we use every day have put us far away from the power of this, and a lot of younger people only know the world of the mouse. In essence it passes on the knowledge that's being lost to make you more productive.
The Mechanics section talks about simple tricks and tools to accelerate your use of the keyboard and repetitive tasks. I have installed a number of useful...more
The Mechanics section talks about simple tricks and tools to accelerate your use of the keyboard and repetitive tasks. I have installed a number of useful...more
This is a 'glue' book. There are books about productivity tips and tricks, and there are books about good software design, and this book attempts to be the glue between them. It talks about what it means to be a productive programmer, both in terms of your toolset and in terms of your mindset. For the former, there are lots of links to various tools and productivity widgets that help you get things done. For the latter, there are discussions about programming tips and tricks.
This is good and ba...more
This is good and ba...more
Despite the three stars, this book actually contains a lot of useful material. It was just "OK" for me personally. It's not that I don't think this book offers good advice - it's just that for me it was just "preaching to the choir" so to speak and I didn't really take a lot new away from it. But for those who don't have as many years under their belt it definitely offers some useful strategies to steer you in the right direction.
Why do some developers spend one week accomplishing what other developers complete in a day? The oft-heard "talent and skill" responses do little to address the root causes to inefficient programming and do not help such developers effectively improve. With this question in mind, The Productive Programmer by Neal Ford applies a productivity framework aimed at training developers to interact with the computing machine with a certain posture in which short term efficiencies are replaced with long...more
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Honestly, I have to say I was surprised to see that (at the time of this writing) this book was averaging 4.5 stars on Amazon. I suppose my expectations of this book were heavily swayed by the title. I was expecting something a little more generic and high-level than what I got.
I think the book makes a decent attempt to provide the reader with 'recipes' that can be used to improve their efficiency and productivity. But the recipes themselves seem to be a little too free-flowing: by the time I go...more
I think the book makes a decent attempt to provide the reader with 'recipes' that can be used to improve their efficiency and productivity. But the recipes themselves seem to be a little too free-flowing: by the time I go...more
Ожидал от этой книги много большего. Фактически не нашёл в ней ничего нового. То полезное, что там есть, уже звучало, по меньшей мере в Code Complete или Pragmatic Programmer. Советы местами очень невнятные, рекомендации софта под Windows, которые через год-два потеряют актуальность не выглядят осмысленными. Ориентированность на Java и Subversion (когда уже далеко не первый год есть DVCS) не порадовали. Для новичка, наверное, в этой книге можно что-то подчерпнуть, сам же я жалею потраченных на н...more
Written in an easy, readable style, The Productive Programmer is something of a Chimera—parts code cookbook, bits of code meta-commentary (and commentary on meta-code), ruminations on the future of software languages, and essay on the essential properties of good software development. Sometimes the writing comes across like extended riffing, and veers towards self-satisfied indulgence: the notes flow nicely, but the book contains melodies that could have been more clearly illuminated. However, a...more
For its size and ease of reading, delivers a good refresher course / starter pack on how to be more productive using low level, day-to-day tactics. Reenergized me to improve my habits with regards to things like automation, templates, tools like multi-clipboards, etc.
This book is filled with many great tips and tools that help enhance productivity. It is a must read for those that want to make their computer do the work for them. Ever hear of the phrase: "work smarter, not harder?" -- this is how to work smarter.
I had just read "Clean Code" and this book was not at all what I expected. Tips, tricks, and scripts for programmers. Not really about theory and practice of programmers. This is more nuts and bolts. Felt like a collection of blog posts to me.
Another cookbook style book, though this one is somewhat organized and almost every "recipe" had something useful for improving my workflow!
I can agree with the core message of this book, which is you should always be looking for a better way to get your job done. That's a good message and this book has some decent examples of how to accomplish that.
However, it would concern me a little bit if a programmer finds that message to be groundbreaking. People use computers and write programs to simplify tasks and be more efficient, so if a programmer is not already of the mindset that things can and should constantly be improved and done...more
However, it would concern me a little bit if a programmer finds that message to be groundbreaking. People use computers and write programs to simplify tasks and be more efficient, so if a programmer is not already of the mindset that things can and should constantly be improved and done...more
A collection of useful tips, that's all.
This book is annoying. There's some useful content in here; too many tips and tricks to ignore the book completely. However, the content all but drowns in sloppy chit-chat and poor attempts at making jokes, as if all programmers are half-brained kids with serious attention deficiencies. Ironically, the attempts to make the material accessible and light to read achieves just the opposite for this reader.
Viele ganz pragmatische Tipps, um effektiver entwickeln und allgemein arbeiten zu können. Besonders gut hat mir gefallen, dass man die Kapitel und einzelnen Tipps separat voneinander lesen kann und somit schnell durch das Buch kommt. Ich konnte einige hilfreiche Dinge entnehmen, auch wenn ich schon vieles kannte - das nochmalige bewusst machen, hat aber sicherlich nicht geschadet.
I am very anal and very organized. I'm totally into any productivity applications/advice. This book isn't bad. There are some really great tips in here and I would say it is worth a read. Will I refer back to it in the future? Probably not. Probably could have just borrowed from the library, if they'd had a copy.
Good stuff. Hopefully this won't date too bad too quickly. You might almost call it dated already. Regardless, the fundamental ideas are there.
It's the kind of tech book that should outlast the code examples inside of it.
It's the kind of tech book that should outlast the code examples inside of it.
The book had some useful productivity tips, but the second half of the book, the Practice section, briefly touched on a variety of subjects that are better explained elsewhere.
Многие вещи в книге являются всеизвестными. Больше подойдет начинающим разработчикам.
This book provides good pointers to productivity tools and a set basic productivity principles for programmers.
Neal is a great speaker and author and should have some tips for just about any reader.
There are many good tips on computer usage effectively for a programmer.
a collection of simple HOW-TOs, that are going to be obsolete soon.
Nothing wrong with a little Groovy coding!
Similar to the Pragmatic Programmer.
Lots of good tips in here.
A laundry list of great tips. I stopped reading about halfway through because so much of the material in the second half inspired a set of articles by the same author which I read previously.
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Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author and/or editor of 5 books spanning a variety of technologies. He focuses on designing and...more
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