《卓有成效的程序員(影印版)》內容簡介：任何一個以開發軟件為生的人都需要掌握一種經過實踐檢驗的方法，來使自己工作得更好、更快、更高效。《卓有成效的程序員》在"如何節省時間"方面提供了寶貴意見和實用工具，無論你使用何種平臺，都能立刻應用于其中。大師級的開發者Neal Ford不僅提供了關于提高生產力的建議：如何更明智地工作，排除干擾，充分利用計算機，以及避免重復；同時他還詳細介紹了許多有價值的實踐經驗，幫助你規避常見陷阱，改善代碼，從而為團隊創造更大的價值。
你將學習到如何：
· 在寫代碼前先寫測試
· 一絲不茍地管理你的對象的生命周期
· 只做你現在必須要做的，而非你將來可能要做的
· 將古老的哲學應用到軟件開發當中
· 敢于質疑，而不是盲目遵從標準
· 利用元編程，將困難轉為容易，化不可能為可能
· 確保同一方法中的所有代碼處于同一個抽象層面
· 選擇合適的編輯器，打造工具組合
這些不是空泛的理論，而是Ford現實的經驗成果。不論你是初學者還是富有多年經驗的專家，《卓有成效的程序員》中簡單而直接的原則對你的工作和職業生涯都將有所裨益。
Neal Ford是全球IT咨詢公司ThoughtWorks的應用軟件構架師。他曾在美國和其他國家進行實地授課，對象包括軍方和多家《財富》500強企業。
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
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My biggest problem with this was the cumbersome gymnastics needed to invoke Ctrl-F2, so Iused the standard Mac OS X keyboard shortcut dialog to remap it to Ctrl-Alt-Apple-Spacebar(which sounds even worse, but they all line up, so it's an easy combination to hit). Plus, myQuicksilver invoker is mapped to Apple-Enter, so all my "meta" navigation is mapped to moreor less the same general area.
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