FOREWORD
PREFACE
1 INTRODUCTION
Why a Book on Programmer Productivity?
What This Book Is About
Where to Go Now?
Part One MECHANICS

2 ACCELERATION
Launching Pad
Accelerators
Macros
Summary

3 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

4 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

5 CANONICALITY
DRY Version Control
Use a Canonical Build Machine
Indirection
Use Virtualization
DRY Impedance Mismatches
DRY Documentation
Summary
Part Two PRACTICE

6 TEST-DRIVEN DESIGN
Evolving Tests
Code Coverage

7 STATIC ANALYSIS
Byte Code Analysis
Source Analysis
Generate Metrics with Panopticode
Analysis for Dynamic Languages

8 GOOD CITIZENSHIP
Breaking Encapsulation
Constructors
Static Methods
Criminal Behavior

9 YAGNI
10 ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS
Aristotle’s Essential and Accidental Properties
Occam’s Razor
The Law of Demeter
Software Lore

11 QUESTION AUTHORITY
Angry Monkeys
Fluent Interfaces
Anti-Objects

12 META-PROGRAMMING
Java and Reflection
Testing Java with Groovy
Writing Fluent Interfaces
Whither Meta-Programming?

13 COMPOSED METHOD AND SLAP
Composed Method in Action
SLAP

14 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

15 FIND THE PERFECT TOOLS
The Quest for the Perfect Editor
The Candidates
Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
Un-Choosing the Wrong Tools

16 CONCLUSION: CARRYING ON THE CONVERSATION
APPENDIX: BUILDING BLOCKS
INDEX