Preface;
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How to Contact Us;
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Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Act with Prudence;
Chapter 2: Apply Functional Programming Principles;
Chapter 3: Ask, "What Would the User Do?" (You Are Not the User);
Chapter 4: Automate Your Coding Standard;
Chapter 5: Beauty Is in Simplicity;
Chapter 6: Before You Refactor;
Chapter 7: Beware the Share;
Chapter 8: The Boy Scout Rule;
Chapter 9: Check Your Code First Before Looking to Blame Others;
Chapter 10: Choose Your Tools with Care;
Chapter 11: Code in the Language of the Domain;
Chapter 12: Code Is Design;
Chapter 13: Code Layout Matters;
Chapter 14: Code Reviews;
Chapter 15: Coding with Reason;
Chapter 16: A Comment on Comments;
Chapter 17: Comment Only What the Code Cannot Say;
Chapter 18: Continuous Learning;
Chapter 19: Convenience Is Not an -ility;
Chapter 20: Deploy Early and Often;
Chapter 21: Distinguish Business Exceptions from Technical;
Chapter 22: Do Lots of Deliberate Practice;
Chapter 23: Domain-Specific Languages;
Chapter 24: Don't Be Afraid to Break Things;
Chapter 25: Don't Be Cute with Your Test Data;
Chapter 26: Don't Ignore That Error!;
Chapter 27: Don't Just Learn the Language, Understand Its Culture;
Chapter 28: Don't Nail Your Program into the Upright Position;
Chapter 29: Don't Rely on "Magic Happens Here";
Chapter 30: Don't Repeat Yourself;
Chapter 31: Don't Touch That Code!;
Chapter 32: Encapsulate Behavior, Not Just State;
Chapter 33: Floating-Point Numbers Aren't Real;
Chapter 34: Fulfill Your Ambitions with Open Source;
Chapter 35: The Golden Rule of API Design;
Chapter 36: The Guru Myth;
Chapter 37: Hard Work Does Not Pay Off;
Chapter 38: How to Use a Bug Tracker;
Chapter 39: Improve Code by Removing It;
Chapter 40: Install Me;
Chapter 41: Interprocess Communication Affects Application Response Time;
Chapter 42: Keep the Build Clean;
Chapter 43: Know How to Use Command-Line Tools;
Chapter 44: Know Well More Than Two Programming Languages;
Chapter 45: Know Your IDE;
Chapter 46: Know Your Limits;
Chapter 47: Know Your Next Commit;
Chapter 48: Large, Interconnected Data Belongs to a Database;
Chapter 49: Learn Foreign Languages;
Chapter 50: Learn to Estimate;
Chapter 51: Learn to Say, "Hello, World";
Chapter 52: Let Your Project Speak for Itself;
Chapter 53: The Linker Is Not a Magical Program;
Chapter 54: The Longevity of Interim Solutions;
Chapter 55: Make Interfaces Easy to Use Correctly and Hard to Use Incorrectly;
Chapter 56: Make the Invisible More Visible;
Chapter 57: Message Passing Leads to Better Scalability in Parallel Systems;
Chapter 58: A Message to the Future;
Chapter 59: Missing Opportunities for Polymorphism;
Chapter 60: News of the Weird: Testers Are Your Friends;
Chapter 61: One Binary;
Chapter 62: Only the Code Tells the Truth;
Chapter 63: Own (and Refactor) the Build;
Chapter 64: Pair Program and Feel the Flow;
Chapter 65: Prefer Domain-Specific Types to Primitive Types;
Chapter 66: Prevent Errors;
Chapter 67: The Professional Programmer;
Chapter 68: Put Everything Under Version Control;
Chapter 69: Put the Mouse Down and Step Away from the Keyboard;
Chapter 70: Read Code;
Chapter 71: Read the Humanities;
Chapter 72: Reinvent the Wheel Often;
Chapter 73: Resist the Temptation of the Singleton Pattern;
Chapter 74: The Road to Performance Is Littered with Dirty Code Bombs;
Chapter 75: Simplicity Comes from Reduction;
Chapter 76: The Single Responsibility Principle;
Chapter 77: Start from Yes;
Chapter 78: Step Back and Automate, Automate, Automate;
Chapter 79: Take Advantage of Code Analysis Tools;
Chapter 80: Test for Required Behavior, Not Incidental Behavior;
Chapter 81: Test Precisely and Concretely;
Chapter 82: Test While You Sleep (and over Weekends);
Chapter 83: Testing Is the Engineering Rigor of Software Development;
Chapter 84: Thinking in States;
Chapter 85: Two Heads Are Often Better Than One;
Chapter 86: Two Wrongs Can Make a Right (and Are Difficult to Fix);
Chapter 87: Ubuntu Coding for Your Friends;
Chapter 88: The Unix Tools Are Your Friends;
Chapter 89: Use the Right Algorithm and Data Structure;
Chapter 90: Verbose Logging Will Disturb Your Sleep;
Chapter 91: WET Dilutes Performance Bottlenecks;
Chapter 92: When Programmers and Testers Collaborate;
Chapter 93: Write Code As If You Had to Support It for the Rest of Your Life;
Chapter 94: Write Small Functions Using Examples;
Chapter 95: Write Tests for People;
Chapter 96: You Gotta Care About the Code;
Chapter 97: Your Customers Do Not Mean What They Say;
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