This is a new blog, which has arisen as a result of restructuring of my own domain, as well as my desire to leave the main one (mindstudies.org) where it is, and maybe enhance it somewhat. My stuff must go, and now it’s all completely separate, though I will be leaving the old blog where it is.

That was number one. The second thing I want to announce (to whom, I wonder), is the fact that after two open-source projects written in C# and WPF (I’m talking about the MathML → C# Converter and TypograFix, which I use to type all my stuff now), I decided that my next widget, whatever it happens to be, will be done in a different language. Which one? Well, it will most likely be F#, but I’ve been considering Nemerle, IronRuby and IronPython. I’ve also thought of crazy things like Erlang (there is no .net variant, to my knowledge), but that will only be used if there is clear reason for it.

Two more interesting things. First, I have put up all of my stuff on Subversion, as I cannot wait to get a reliable TFS install anywhere. I did have one, but then the hard drive decided to destroy itself – I doubt TFS was to blame, but whatever. Being happy with SVN, I also got a free account on FogBugz so now I track my stuff exclusively there. I must admit that I could just as easily host a JIRA personal license, but since I do commercial stuff, I’m really not allowed to. So FogBugz it is.

More fun in store – the first meeting of the St. Petersburg ALT.NET Group is probably not that far away, so I’m excited to see how things pan out – assuming the meeting happens at all. It’s nice to realize that the developer community hasn’t died off due to an economic crisis or something – though at times it seems that way.

That’s all for now. I better get back to coding useful programs, lest I lose my .net touch.