The time has come. Like hot flaming liquid poured straight into a web server, pounded with a hambone made of lightning and set on the table for everyone to partake… the new SolidSmack site is LIVE. It’s about time also, the old site was kinda shiny lookin’ but had the content kickin’ factor of wadded…

Maybe ‘Punch’ is a bit to harsh? It’s actually more like a firm jabbing with the blunt end of an answered question… multiple questions. Vicious, I know, but it will all be worth it for reasons you will soon be able to feast your eyes upon. If you’ve been kneeling waist deep in porridge, watching…

Unfortunately, “beetle larvae” is not an option you will see in this survey. You could add that answer, but then you would likely disrupt the most serious survey in all the world of engineering software. COFES ( The Congress on the Future of Engineering Software) is coming up and part of the festivities include a…