• learn Design patterns. They help you understand problems, make you a better programmer -> will let you program a lot faster since you have already solutions for several problems prepared in mind
• extract repetitive parts in your program. If there is some logic which repeats throughout several programs you write, consider generalizing them and extracting them to some class library which you can then reuse on new applications you write. Standardize things: invest some time into finding out how certain repetitive tasks are done best. Document the steps for achieving. Next time you will exactly know how to solve/apply them.
• KISS principle
• Code generation will be useful (once a useful tool is available). Generators start to gain popularity, recently.

Note: Just making things work is worse!! As some mention just to hack in things till they work will make you faster just for the moment. Bugs will come in however which somehow count also in terms of how fast you program. If I have to write some piece of functionality and I invest in writing it good, having a good design, possibly well tested (with Unit tests) and say I'll need half a day. But assume that was it and your feature works and you don't have to touch it again. Another programmer, just focused on a fast achievement of his goal, will make (possibly) a bad design, due to missing testing he'll not consider (be aware of) boundary, exceptional cases. He'll need 2 hours (let's say). Bugs will come in, he'll again have to touch the code, fix it, possibly extend it (hours will be invested again). Code will be hard to maintain etc...resumé: at the end he'll spend much ore time and frustration will be higher.