Any advice on where to start if interested in ROM Development?

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Although I appreciate the work that the developers have put into their GTab 8.9 ROMs, I am a little disappointed in the lack of selction to choose from.

Lets just say I was interested in trying this myself...

Where would I begin?
Do you need to know a lot of coding to do this? (I am a mechanical engineer by training, but have a great deal of computer know-how.)

I don't have massive amounts of free time available (I have 2 kids aged 2 and 4), so family time occupies the majority of my time.

This is probably never going to happen, but I was just wondering what was involved in doing this work.

Thanks in advance!

PS: I am a Mac user - not sure if this hinders me or not, but I can dual boot into windows 7 when needed.

just a noob answer..
first.. What kind of interest you choose?
If you choose performance or overclocking you can start from kernel development..
You need windows or linux/unix Environment to do that..
If you want to build the ROM from the start, you can choose AOSP,ask developer if you want to help them..
Or maybe you can start from Odex and deodex stock ROM, zipalining, tweaking some buildprop, theming with framework..
Most of the tools for that is build for Linux and Windows, i dont know for MAC user..

Hope this help a little for you..
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