I'm awake, but not for long.

[swestrup]

Its about time I hit the sack. I haven't really had the time to post much here lately. I pretty much get home, eat supper and go to bed. Then its up in the morning and out the door to work. I do try and take the occasional 5 minute break to catch up on LJ while I'm there, but mostly I don't even notice how fast the time is zooming by.

Anyway, things are getting better. My workload is less insane so I've managed to finish some tasks. That means that I'm actually now finding the time to do some of the 'background' tasks I've set for myself, such as learn PHP and MYSQL and read a bunch of relevant manuals.

Of course, once I've taught myself all of that, it'll probably be time for me to start in on learning the kernel APIs. Give me 6 months and I'll probably be able to give most of the developers on site a run for their money, coding wise. For now though, its gonna be a bit of a slog absorbing all the new stuff I'll need.

Comments

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

For PHP I'd recommend the manual on http://php.net/ as it pretty well sums up what you can and can't do with the basic structures. And it's a good reference manual for when you're up and running.

If you know C-style programming languages (I'm thinking syntax-wise, here) you'll grasp the basics of PHP in a few hours. The slightly tricky part to adjust to if you haven't done so before is the way server-side programming works in conjunction with web servers and so on. But you'll quickly pick that up as well.

For MySQL I don't really have any good references. Some years ago I switched from PostgreSQL to MySQL (because of some work related things) and basically just plowed through the online manuals, though it was mainly just for reference to see how MySQL implements certain things like date types and so on.

learning the kernel APIs

Would that be the Linux kernel you'll be hacking soon?