This is part 2 in the ongoing series where I am trying to rationalize/understand to myself and anyone interested in my decision to go back to school. Today’s post goes over why I would even consider going back to school without going into specifics about why I choose to study Math and Physics.

Have you ever encountered an error running a program where it’s missing a dll or a shared library?

As the title states, I decided to resign from my job and go back to University for another undergrad. This was not something I thought about overnight but for a very long time since I was a sophomore. Terminating my employment with the company I work with isn’t due to any ill feelings to the team nor the company. I love working with my manager and with those in my team.

On my previous post What does the Build Team Do, I covered various topics about builds and devOps. Today, I want to go more in depth on what goes on when you press the run button which I briefly brushed over in the previous post. This does get quite technical but don’t fret. I have stopped myself from writing and reading up in depth about the topic to avoid going through the rabbit hole.

Although still under progress, I have been dabbling with reveal.js, an HTML presentation framework. It’s absolutely beautiful and has markdown and tex support which is excellent. I wanted to create a presentation that is more functional to showcase computer science concepts and found OpenOffice Impress to be unsuitable. After viewing the demo for reveal.js, I was immediately sold. It contains so many features that I need and has a low learning curve for someone who has sufficient HTML experience.

In my undergraduate in Computer Science, I got the opportunity to work at IBM as a member of the Build Infrastructure Team. I had absolutely no clue what the Build Infrastructure Team is or does. Though I am no expert and I still have a difficult time explaining what I do to friends and family, I’ll try to tackle the subject to the best of my ability. This post is a precursor to an education session titled An Overview of DevOps and Builds I plan to give to new interns of the Build Infrastructure Team at IBM this May. I am hoping my actions of writing a blog will prepare me for my presentation. (On a side note, this is a good sequel to my previous blog about Software Ports)