The Bull Og

Happy to report that the portfolio you now see to the right is completely dynamically generated and driven by XML and XSLT. I still need to work on details for some of the projects (if you click around and notice that some of them are empty or you get an error, that’s because I haven’t gotten around to fleshing them out yet. Check back soon!)

TODO

• flesh out projects
• fix styling
• create stylesheet for generating resume page as HTML
• portfolio plugin for WordPress plugin?
• add code samples

UPDATE: Sigh, search doesn’t work for my resume (which is in XML) because it’s not indexed.

I’ve been meaning for a long time to synchronize my resume, portfolio, and LinkedIn profile. The portfolio to the right that you’re currently seeing is static and has been a beast to maintain, as have the corresponding pages (which are all managed by WordPress as a CMS.)

I’ve finally taken the time and decomposed my resume into XML. Soon I’ll be able to use one source file and a few stylesheets to render a web version of the resume, updates for my LinkedIn profile (which I’ll probably have to cut-and-paste,) the portfolio on this site, and a simple text version of my resume for online job apps (though, when will I need that last one?)

* May not necessarily add up to eactly 15 hours

• clean my blog
• swim twice a week
• lift weights twice a week
• play basketball once a week
• spend more time with my wife
• walk to work occasionally
• walk home from work occasionally
• cook
• write a book/series of blog posts (maybe both) about the nightmare that has been our first home purchase
• go out with people from work for happy hour
• read the news
• woodshed on all the technologies I have been meaning to learn
• call people