Comments on: The Productive Programmer: Book Review

By: tushar

tushar — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:30:10 +0000

http://architecture-soa-bpm-eai.blogspot.com/2009/11/book-review-productive-programmer-by.html

By: Coding: Single Level of Abstraction Principle at Mark Needham

Coding: Single Level of Abstraction Principle at Mark Needham — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:09:41 +0000

[...] I first came across the idea of writing code at the same level of abstraction in Uncle Bob's Clean Code although I only learnt about the actual term in Neal Ford's The Productive Programmer. [...]

By: Coding: Why do we extract method? at Mark Needham

Coding: Why do we extract method? at Mark Needham — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:29:27 +0000

[...] The aim is to try and ensure that the chunks of code that we extract into a method are all at the same level of abstraction – Neal Ford refers to this as the Single Level of Abstraction Principle (SLAP) in The Productive Programmer. [...]

By: Suresh R Iyer

Suresh R Iyer — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:10:08 +0000

Great review, Mark. I read Part 1 on the train (irony) from Bangalore to Chennai, and understood how far I need to travel if I want to consider myself a good programmer. I wanted to share the news about the book and thought will add a link to a review that resonates with what I felt, and so used yours for my tweet: http://twitter.com/protoiyer/status/1458037979. Keep them coming.

By: Pair Programming: Driving quickly at Mark Needham

Pair Programming: Driving quickly at Mark Needham — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:16:34 +0000

[...] I found the most effective way for me was if my pair pointed out potential shortcuts whenever I was using the mouse to try and do something. On my current project we have installed an IntelliJ plugin called Key Promoter which pops up a message telling you the shortcuts every time you use one of the menu options. I learnt about this plugin from Neal Ford's book, The Productive Programmer. [...]

By: Similarities between Domain Driven Design & Object Oriented Programming at Mark Needham

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:14:15 +0000

[...] In OOP this would be described as using meaningful names as detailed in Uncle Bob's Clean Code (my review). [...]

By: Team Productivity vs Individual Productivity at Mark Needham

Team Productivity vs Individual Productivity at Mark Needham — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:51:30 +0000

[...] been reading Neal Ford's The Productive Programmer (my review) which is a book all about improving your productivity as an individual [...]

By: Mark Needham

Mark Needham — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:36:53 +0000

@Torbjörn I'm actually reading that right now, thanks for the tip though!

@Andy thanks for the ideas. Have updated this post and will keep that in mind for future posts.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:07:18 +0000

One suggestion: You have two links that need context to understand their meaning ("here" and "interesting post"). IMHO, it would be better if the links were "using underscores in test names" and "Arrow Head anti-pattern" This draws attention to the concept you're commenting on, and means that scan reading is more effective.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:15:21 +0000

This was a really good review Mark.
My thoughts were along the lines of "That sounds good, that sounds useful, that's true, must buy book, must buy book…"

Keep them coming