Status Updates From The Productive Programmer (...

 Usage of Groovy to Generate XML files rather than writing XML.
 If you already have XML then use Groovy to build builder files and then switch to Groovy as below

 Installation of CYGWIN – Need some good examples to demonstrate the power of Unix Shell Scripting like find, grep etc

Completed (for now) on Boxing Day 2021

Polyglot Programming
Ola Pyramid
DSL on top of the pyramid for business-domain based work
Groovy for day-to-day coding - Dynamic Language
Java at the bottom for a stable steady language - Statically Typed

Editors and the features that are required

Composed and SLAP - Single Level of Abstraction. Page - Code at Page 156 is clearly refactored using composed method, it could have been extended to SLAP also not sure why new classes were introduced.
But a fantastic chapter on refactoring and introducing Abstraction, Method < 15 lines, Single Responsibility

Groovy
Angry Monkeys
Fluent Interfaces - Method Chaining
Use Groovy and Spock for faster and expressive Unit Testing

YAGNI and
Essential and Accidental complexeties
Maximize work on Essential Complexity; kill Accidental Complexity
Law of Demeter - " never use more than one dot for any method call"
eg homer.getJob().setPosition("Janitor");

Good Citizenship
Do not break Encapsulation. Dont put Public setters/getters for Private variables. Calendar is a good example.
dont rely on default Constructors
Dont rely on static Methods therefore dont rely on Singleton Objects instead use Factory method

Hamcrest, PMD, FindBugs, Cyclomatic Complexity of Nodes and Edges
Formula is
Number of Edges - Number of Nodes + 2
Edges represent the execution path and Nodes represent Lines of Code

TDD Creates consumption awareness when you create a unit test – You are creating the first consumer of the code under development.

TDD requires you create the first consumer. The code will then be written in a way that makes you think how this will be used. BETTER TO BE TDD all the time.
TDD Forces you to mock dependent objects

dbDeploy not sure what it accomplishes.
yDoc - Now yWorks is a UML doclet and is it only for Java?

Canonicality and DRY in ORM mappers

Don't shave the Yaks!!

I’ve noticed some things are no longer accurate in this book, but some of the principles and general advice is quite helpful

kill distractions
Use better Search
Try to use Find with exec

Spend a little each day to make every day productive This is the best way to apply learnings

OS Accelerators - Address Bar
Alt-D in Explorer, How to use ctrl+L

IDE Shortcut keys
Development Accelerators - Templates & Introduce Variables
Macros - IDE Macros and OS Macros (AutoHotKey)

It is 10 years old and already completely outdated. It focuses on tools that were relevant in the 2000s, instead of ideas that would still be relevant today. I chuckled when I came across a section that recommended using Google Desktop, which was discontinued in 2011.

If you were considering this book, I'd suggest picking up The Pragmatic Programmer instead, which has stayed relevant after after two decades.

1/5