I’ve written about removing distractions before. With an increasing number of social networks, it’s becoming more and more difficult to detach ourselves from distractions. However, I find that simply working on paid projects is enough to get me to focus — if that project is not completed then I won’t get paid. That’s enough to focus me! Working on (non-paid) personal or open source projects is much more difficult, however.

Regarding snacks, I’ve found graze excellent in this regard: small boxes of healthy stuff delivered to you weekly. These kind of snacks are great at keeping you going between meals.

Code re-use is a must. Typically if there’s some code that you need, it’s likely to already exist in some form or other – a library, class or framework, for example. The best and most efficient programmers are, in my opinion, the ones that do the least amount of programming!