Introduction

[lee at williams-freelancing.co.uk]

Hi,

Looking at the wiki it says to introduce myself.

Well here goes...

I'm married with 3 kids (aged 4, 2, 1 :D)... full time job but I do get time to
spare surprisingly!!!!  I love my family to pieces they mean the world to me.

I've been working in IT for 10yrs now all in a Microsoft DOS / Windows based
environment, starting with development in FoxBASE and FoxPro and moving through
the versions to visual fox.  I've not attended university but have never had a
problem with reading / googlin' bits to learn new things; I do get quite a kick
from picking up "new to me" technologies and helping to solve problems. 

Currently I work full time as a Visual Studio developer with Technology
Management Ltd. in the UK developing .NET applications for the WinCE / Windows
Mobile based mobile device market.  Those applications are mainly written in C#
but we do have a significant VB.net code base.

Following the latest Microsoft based OS crash at home a rebuild has become
necessary which I started this weekend - yesterday in fact, so I made the choice
to make Linux my main OS; to be fair it should've been from when I dabbled with
Fedora 7 and 8 thereafter... still... my foot has gone down, and my wife is
scheduled a tour of Fedora at the weekend ;)  

I have recently bootstrapped myself to other languages C / C++ and php for web
work I'm finding this interesting to say the least.  I do have some experience
with Apache and MySQL (obviously the strong knowledge I have in Internet
Information Services and SQL Server have been somewhat transferable).  It looks
like I need to add python to the list of things to learn and this is something
I've been mulling over so may just make that leap. 

>From all of that I'm hoping you can tell that whilst I have very little
experience with 'nix environments I am keen to learn just need some guidance on
where to go to pick that up.

Away from PC's (if there ever is such time) I play guitar - well I play guitar,
banjo, and mandolin to be honest.  The last two I'm not so hot at but I can
"hold my own" - to coin a phrase - on the guitar.  I also love to read; and have
- of all things - recently started dabbling in magic and performance thereof
but... now I'm rambling :D

I look forward to helping in whatever way I can.  I'm looking for a good place
to start, I'm obviously following the wiki, reading up when I can, and of course
getting my own Fedora environment setup (although I do have one running in
VirtualBox at work to satiate the 'nix desires whilst I'm at work :D).

I'm am currently hoping to help in the sysadmin-devel FIG.

So hello nice to "meet" and greet, and I hope you're well.

Lee.
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