Hi!
As a physicist from Gothenburg, Sweden, I have been doing scientific programming for a couple of years, and I just start to get the grips about it.
Daniweb is one of numerous forums I usually visit for tips about programming and operating system stuff. I am using: Ubuntu GNU/Linux, GCC, Make, Emacs, Git, and more as my programming tools and C/C++ and Fortran as favorite languages.
Best regards Fribacka.