Well, I’m back
by Mithrandir
In the last HCAR I saw that there is a section called “Haskell in Romania” where Dan Popa from Bacău makes some statements. I read this section in other HCARs and other parts as well. What I want is that in the next HCAR or the following one, a new entry will be put there offering a much more complete overview of the situation in Romania.
And I intend to start several Haskell projects with involvement from students and teachers and people from IT industry. This is a plan I’m willing to put much energy into.
And I can do that. I left IXIA in order to pursue an academic career. Soon I’ll be going in France to do some research with an ERASMUS position. Then, I’ll concentrate on teaching and doing research.
Also, the Erlang introduction got to me. I’ll try to learn it by Christmas, maybe it can be used from time to time :)
In the end, a lesson I have learned: having many blogs is cumbersome, you cannot properly update all of them. I intend to merge all two of them into a single one. Taking into account the many problems I had with wordpress and source code (the reason I started HaCoTeB in the first place — a failed project with many lessons to be learned) I decided that it is time to use something new. I’m looking at Hakyll or Milagos (from veinor/amateurtopologist). Will decide soon on something, after getting a VPS and playing a little with it.
There are other plans as well but those exposed here are those I’m willing to dedicate as much time as possible. Time will tell what I have managed to do.
Anywhere are you posting, from time to time, I will lecture your entries. It’s interesting what you are doing and I am interested to watch for your achievements. Personally, I am glad that you want to pursue an academic and a research career. I saw that you say No to several big names in the IT industry, but where do you see you working over 5 years ? In Romania or abroad ? What do you think, is Romania the country that can assure you the conditions for accomplishing your objectives ?
Well, there are several paths to follow for the future. Some of them involve working in Romania, some of them working at big names or doing research somewhere.
I understand only too well two of the issues you encountered: first, having multiple blogs or even multiple sections can be cumbersome, time and energy consuming. That’s why I dropped all my previous content.
Second, blogging systems are not really ready for blogging. I find this amazing, and trying to convince wordpress to do what I want is really too much. I have my own VPS and I intend to replace wordpress with something intelligent, for a change. Now I’ll probably have the time, since I decided to quit real life and get back on the technical side of things. :)