Ebook: The Productive Programmer

The Productive Programmer; Preface; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari® Enabled; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Firefox; What This Book Is About; Part II: Practice (Philosophy); Where to Go Now?; I. Mechanics; Creating a Windows Launching Pad; Mac OS X; Launching in Linux; Accelerators; Mac OS X Finder; Clipboard(s); Remember History; There and Back; Command Prompts at Your Fingertips; Here!; Development Accelerators; Search Trumps Navigation in Tools, Too; Macros; Key Macro Tools; Summary; 3. Focus; Turn Off Needless Notifications.;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.