22.3.2007
In the past few weeks, I've made a bit of an effort to get some texts flushed
out that have been accumulating, in the form of sketches and ideas, on my hard disk
for months. Observing myself, I notice that I tend to get started quickly and easily
with a number of ideas all the time - but if I don't finish them immediately, mostly
because I'm too busy, or because too many new things come in, then they remain half-
finished and never get out. After a while, however, I tell myself that that's a shame
and actually get down and finish them; and that time is now :-)
In this case, what we have here is a collection of various things. First, there
is a paper about some special topics in the area of Eclipse technology - stuff which
has kept me busy in my daytime job over the last years, and on which I have summarized
a few thoughts because the technology itself is moving on. In particular, the topic
is Feature relationships in
Eclipse. (Feature is Eclipse's term for a bunch of software that you
can install or update individually.) The relationships described there are such things
as one Feature 'depending' on another one, one Feature 'including' another one, and
so on.
A second topic where I have been collecting material is Haskell programming. I
have been doing a bit of this, more as a hobby, over the last years, and I am loving
it more with every line of Haskell code that I write. I have written up some
'Getting started' experiences over time, and I've now started to put them online in
order to share them. In addition to a few smaller snippets, there is now a somewhat
longer post about
command-line options in Haskell. Most of this technical stuff, by the way, goes
to my technology blog at
http://cohatoe.blogspot.com. So if you are interested in those bits, please
point your RSS reader there :-)
Next, I have a number of posts about my current main interest in ethics, mostly
centered around what I have called, in some previous posts, life-defining projects. I have posted one
entry that explores the attitude
towards others' life-defining projects that one should take, and I am preparing
another one about Robert Nozick's notion of 'becoming real'. Both have been written
some months ago, and I am now merely polishing them a bit. There is, of course, no lack
of new ideas - so be prepared for more soon (and on that occasion - thanks for reading
up to here :-)
