Sharpening The Saw – Bashing Your Workflow
Typing. As a developer you do a ton of it day in and day out. However, most typing is in service of menial tasks that you repeat several times throughout the day. You should be focused on solving problems, not remembering the API to various command line applications or boilerplate language idioms. Wouldn't it be great if you could automate those tasks? The good news is that nearly 100% of the typing you do is on a computer, which by some kind of miracle is able to be um… programmed. In this post, I'll share some of my favorite ways to stop doing grunt work and focus on solving client problems.