Comments on: The Productive Programmer: Book Review http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/09/05/the-productive-programmer-book-review/ Thoughts on Software Development Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Essential and accidental complexity - Mark Needham - CodeBetter.Com - Stuff you need to Code Better! http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/09/05/the-productive-programmer-book-review/comment-page-1/#comment-33699 Essential and accidental complexity - Mark Needham - CodeBetter.Com - Stuff you need to Code Better! Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:29:00 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=309#comment-33699 [...] I've been reading Neal Ford's series of articles on Evolutionary architecture and emergent design and in the one about 'Investigating architecture and design' he discusses Essential and accidental complexity which I've previously read about in Neal's book, 'The Productive Programmer'. [...] [...] I've been reading Neal Ford's series of articles on Evolutionary architecture and emergent design and in the one about 'Investigating architecture and design' he discusses Essential and accidental complexity which I've previously read about in Neal's book, 'The Productive Programmer'. [...]

]]> By: Essential and accidental complexity at Mark Needham http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/09/05/the-productive-programmer-book-review/comment-page-1/#comment-33698 Essential and accidental complexity at Mark Needham Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:24:24 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=309#comment-33698 [...] I've been reading Neal Ford's series of articles on Evolutionary architecture and emergent design and in the one about 'Investigating architecture and design' he discusses Essential and accidental complexity which I've previously read about in Neal's book, 'The Productive Programmer'. [...] [...] I've been reading Neal Ford's series of articles on Evolutionary architecture and emergent design and in the one about 'Investigating architecture and design' he discusses Essential and accidental complexity which I've previously read about in Neal's book, 'The Productive Programmer'. [...]

]]> By: tushar http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/09/05/the-productive-programmer-book-review/comment-page-1/#comment-26223 tushar Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:30:10 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=309#comment-26223 http://architecture-soa-bpm-eai.blogspot.com/2009/11/book-review-productive-programmer-by.html 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 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/09/05/the-productive-programmer-book-review/comment-page-1/#comment-18661 Coding: Single Level of Abstraction Principle at Mark Needham Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:09:41 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=309#comment-18661 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/09/05/the-productive-programmer-book-review/comment-page-1/#comment-18461 Coding: Why do we extract method? at Mark Needham Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:29:27 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=309#comment-18461 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/09/05/the-productive-programmer-book-review/comment-page-1/#comment-13635 Suresh R Iyer Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:10:08 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=309#comment-13635 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. 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 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/09/05/the-productive-programmer-book-review/comment-page-1/#comment-1083 Pair Programming: Driving quickly at Mark Needham Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:16:34 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=309#comment-1083 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/09/05/the-productive-programmer-book-review/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Similarities between Domain Driven Design & Object Oriented Programming at Mark Needham Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:14:15 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=309#comment-400 [...] In OOP this would be described as using meaningful names as detailed in Uncle Bob's Clean Code (my review). [...] [...] 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 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/09/05/the-productive-programmer-book-review/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Team Productivity vs Individual Productivity at Mark Needham Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:51:30 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=309#comment-326 [...] been reading Neal Ford's The Productive Programmer (my review) which is a book all about improving your productivity as an individual [...] [...] 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 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/09/05/the-productive-programmer-book-review/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Mark Needham Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:36:53 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=309#comment-285 @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. @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.

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