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Tips for getting back into it

  • 01-11-2011 2:30pm
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    I was going to post this on the Development forum, and if the mods think it's more suitable there then feel free to move it, but I would prefer if my target audience was Unix/Linux heads.

    I've been into Linux/Unix since 1995. My first Linux distro was Redhat 2.0. Prior to college I taught myself asm for x86, c, c++ and perl. In college I picked up Java, C#, SQL. My degree is a BSc in Software Development. During my internship I worked has a kernel hacker for Intel, while also doing some perl and database work for them. Once I graduated I didn't go down the development route because I hated coming home from coding all day and having no motivation to do anything coding related. I went into an Operations role and I currently work in the finance industry in the states. It's a pretty epic job but there is not enough coding. Any coding I do is a small bit of perl and I spend my day doing management stuff. My career has gone in a direction I thought I wanted, but I can see that I'm not happy. When I come home from work these days I still have no motivation to work on any coding projects because the days are so hectic in work (some days I don't even get a break). I realize that this is not sustainable and I plan on having kids in a couple of years so I think it's time for change.

    So I want to get back into coding again. The last time I touched the Linux Kernel things like the scheduler were completely different. I have purchased the following books to help bring me up to speed:
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0137017839
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593272200
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672329468

    It's like riding a bike and won't take long I imagine. Are there any other books out there that you guys could recommend? I'll give The Pragmatic Programmer another read too.

    Cheers. :)


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    Khannie
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    Wowsers. Are you going to actually do some open source coding? I almost forget what it's like not having kids and having the time to just engage in reading stuff that you'll find interesting like that. :)

    I'd say you'll be grand. If you were around in the redhat 2 days when you got your distros off cover cd's then I'd say you wont have any trouble getting back into it.


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    PrzemoF
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    Get familiar with git - I like "Git from the bottom up"


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    Khannie wrote: »
    Wowsers. Are you going to actually do some open source coding? I almost forget what it's like not having kids and having the time to just engage in reading stuff that you'll find interesting like that. :)

    I'd say you'll be grand. If you were around in the redhat 2 days when you got your distros off cover cd's then I'd say you wont have any trouble getting back into it.

    Hehe. Work is crazy busy but my girlfriend lives 900 miles away from me until May so I have lots of time in the evenings for this. I live alone too which helps. Granted I see her for 2 weeks every 5 weeks but I have more than enough time thankfully. We are getting married in 2013 so I might as well take as much time as I can now because that time will vanish soon enough I am sure. :P

    Cheers PrzemoF, I'll look into GIT. I remember reading the kernel dev lists when Linus was writing it. Looks like it is pretty big now. :)


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