“The future of our industry now looks totally different than the past. It looks like a sheet of paper, and it’s called the iPad. It’s not about typing or clicking; it’s about touching. It’s not about text, or even animation, it’s about video. It’s not about a local disk, or even a desktop, it’s about the cloud. It’s not about pulling information; it’s about push. It’s not about repurposing old software, it’s about writing everything from scratch (because you want to take advantage of the awesome potential of the new computers and the new cloud—and because you have to reach this pinnacle). Finally, the industry is fun again.” — Daring Fireball Linked List: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Gets It
I’m in the process of looking for a job again now that I am wrapping up graduate school. I’m looking forward to working again.
The first part of any job search is, of course, the creation of the resume, and since I am never very happy with the output of Microsoft Word, I decided to look in to creating a resume in LaTeX. I’ve used LaTeX enough to know that its best to start out with a template of some sort. Thankfully, there are quite a few available:
I decided on David Grant’s template. The only problem I ran in to was with the shading.sty file. He uses some features that are specific to postscript so if you attempt to use pdflatex instead of the tex -> dvi -> pdf route then you will get errors. The simple fix to this problem if you are using TeXShop on OS X is to switch the render under Typeset to Tex and Ghostscript instead of pdflatex.
The only major change I made to the template was to remove the bullet points from the list of degrees and the list of work experience. I didn’t feel they were necessary and detracted from the otherwise pleasing look of the design. They are easily removed from a standard LaTeX itemize list with the following code:
\begin{itemize}
\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{ }
\item
...
Here is an example of the final output: Resume PDF.
Also, if you are looking for something more along the lines of a CV then you may want to check out this one (via John).
I was looking for a way to add syntax highlighting to this site and came across SyntaxHighlighter. It supports just about every language I will ever want and looks nice as well.
Here is an example:
def hello_world(self):
print("Hello World!")
if __name__ == "__main__":
hello_world( )
I’ve been wanting to set up a website again for awhile, but I have been putting it off since I wanted to set it up under my anthonymcclosky.com domain with a custom theme, etc. I’ve started the project several times and never finished, but I will eventually. In the mean time, I want to start generating some content that will ultimately be migrated to my domain site.
Hopefully, with that goal in mind, I can actually move some of the content that has been floating around in my head for the last couple of years, on to the internet so I can actually get some feedback on things.
UPDATE: I moved this post over from my wordpress.com site to a site hosted on the anthonymcclosky.com domain. It is currently run on tumblr only because I have other things I want to work on right now other than build yet another blog template or engine. We will see how this goes.