About the Book

The 80/2o of Software Development is the manifesto of the smart and lazy programmer.

In any activity, there are clear tradeoffs when taking action. As a smart developer, you can structure your code,  use your time, and deal with legacy code much more effectively.

• Enjoy your work.
• Get boatloads done in very little time.
• Create high quality code without writing thousands of tests that prove what you already know.
• Use certain language features to make sure that your code always remains easy to modify and understand.
• Avoid wasting your time creating features no one ever finds.
• Spend as much time as possible creatively solving problems.
• Future-proof your code with lazy evaluation, so it’s easy to get rid of dead code.
• Quickly Find elegant ways of solving problems
• Overcome high coupling and low cohesion
• Simplify processes, to get to the essence of things faster.
• Remove internal blocks to rapid progress within software companies.
• Use their time much more effectively by applying the 80/20 principle
• Get into creative flow much easier

About the Author

Luke Szyrmer

@launchtomorrow

Lukasz Szyrmer is a highly rated technical author on codeproject.com, an award-winning public speaker, a mentor, teacher, and community activist. He enjoys the challenge of distilling complex technical and organizational ideas down to their essence, so that others can benefit. He has previously inspired many people to systematic self-improvement.

He currently develops multithreaded, real-time financial software for hedge funds in C++ and C#. Luke learned to code as a child, fascinated by software, well enough to become an embedded C developer after earning an Economics degree from Penn. In addition to a MSc in finance, he is also a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.