So it's incredibly bad blog form to just repost what some other, better known (and maybe just better, period) blogger posted the other day ...

.. But I'll do it anyway.

Best. Domain. Name. Ever.

Well, for nerds like us.

http://scie.nti.st

(I think San Tomé is making a killing on these .st domains. Just like Tuvalu)

I've been developing software for the past 10 years using Microsoft tools (VB, C++ with MFC and C#).  Up until now it's done the job, but now that we're developing our own products I've come to realize that it is time for a change.

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN turned on last week to much fanfare. It managed to make Google's front page image. Fortunately, they avoided this. It's quite a technical achievement, decades in the making, and the LHC is the "undiscovered country" of experimental particle physics. However, I have mixed feelings about it.

Both Jamie and I have been turned onto the Vibrant Ink theme for editing. This theme was originally designed for Textmate, but has been ported to other editors and IDEs. The two that we are using are:

It's what the community knows.

Our website was down yesterday and the experts who run our hosting company didn't have a nightly backup, so the post I wrote on Tuesday vanished into the ether. So I'm going to recreate it from memory. Here goes ...