Rating: 

Neal Ford shows in The Productive Programmer not only some tricks and programs how to work much faster, but gives you the right directions how to notice where you can make your optimalizations to speed up things and thus working much more productively.

Neal shows the reader that programmers easily forget where computers are for. Executing actions over and over again. Is isn't the computer that does those repetitive actions, but the developer himself.

Therefore it's a great book for the GUI developers among us who want to speed up things and aren't afraid of the command-line.

The way Neal writes this book is a very attractive with a lot of anecdotes and a direct way of talking to the reader.

A book worth it's money.