Vista

Usually I code in Eclipse. It saves me a lot of time, especially thanks to plugins such as oXygen and Mylyn.  However, it’s been frustrating me for a while that although I can pop-out individual Views and position them on my second monitor, it didn’t seem possible to open a second instance of the same View. I was wrong!  Just select “New window” from the “Window” menu.  It seems to have full functionality, you can even select an entirely different Perspective, if you wish. Simples! As Aleksandr Orlov would say :)

Jeni Tennison is an XSLT guru who shares her expertise unstintingly on paper, at conferences and online.  If you’re an XSLT programmer, Jeni needs no introduction; she’s probably helped you out sometime or awed you with an elegantly simple solution to what you thought was a horrendously complex problem.  She has a knack for it.  And this skill for simplicity and elegance in code is something I aspire to.  And that’s easier said than done in XSLT – no sooner have you matched a “/” and before you can say value-of,  you find you’ve applied templates to the descendant of an ancestor, sorted three ways, with a mode and priorities applied.  So I salute you Jeni and will spend at least some of Ada Lovelace Day refactoring in your honour.