One-page resume in CSS3

Recently, I came across a really nicely done one-page resume on Scribd, and wanted to try to recreate it using the latest web technologies (no Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word, or OpenOffice allowed). Turns out with a few sprinklings of CSS3, it's pretty straightforward. Let's peel back the covers and take a look.

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Slaying the Beast

So tell me if this sounds familiar:

goal: build up my online portfolio.
how I'll do it: maintain a regular blogging schedule (this, too, I'll write more about soon)

Yeah, not so much. Instead, the past 6 months of my life have been swallowed up by a ravenous beast known as "graduate school," that has grown more and more aggressive in the past 3 or 4 weeks. I dealt it a mortal blow when I passed my defense on Monday the 19th, but it limped along for a while, whispering to me of Target Audiences, Proper Whitespacing, and Nested Bookmarks. Today, I think it finally gasped its last breath, but I have to wait until tomorrow for the official word from the graduate reviewercoroner.

So, this is me saying "I'm back." I have a half-dozen half-finished posts in draft, way more free time than I'm used to, and a lot to catch up on.

See you soon.

In Case You Missed It: TXJS

Last Saturday was the inaugural TXJS (Texas JavaScript) conference in Austin, Texas. Unfortunately, as with JSConf, I wasn't able to attend, but I still wanted to stay abreast of its happenings. Just as I did with JSConf, I've looked over the schedule, picked through the Twitter stream, followed the presenters, and where possible, found links to the slides they each presented. All for you, Dear Readers (well, for me too... but mostly for you ;) ).

So anyway, without further adieu, here we go!

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Tidbits

As of this morning, JSConf 2010 videos are starting to make their way online. I'm looking forward to virtually experiencing the Piratey goodness for myself.

Oh, and I'm starting to fix/update the Canvassa mapping tool, still needs some optimizations and bugfixes, but at least it's not completely broken anymore... yay?

Finally, I've recently found myself on an insanely-accelerated timetable to finish my Computational Linguistics MA thesis in the next 3 weeks or so, so you can probably expect my next post or two to reflect that preoccupation. Provided I find anything in the course of writing it that deserves the (slightly) larger platform.

Solved: Cannot find -lgcc_s on Cygwin 4.3.4

For the past week or so, I've been trying to build the Giza++ language modeling tools on my Windows machines, and have been having quite a bit of trouble. Permissions errors on Windows 7, weird "missing separator" error messages that were completely unhelpful (it means your text editor has replaced all tabs with spaces), and so on. Compile and build errors that have kept me up late into the night on several occasions lately, but which I was ultimately able to untangle with a little applied Google-Fu.

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JSConf 2010: Final Thoughts and Links

Today I saw in my blog reader that Guillermo Rauch over at DevThought has posted his list of JSConf links, similar to mine (Day 1 and Day 2). He's got a few links I haven't got in mine, but I have some he doesn't, too (he only listed Track A talks). So in the interest of cross-pollination, I've updated my posts and will give him a heads-up of my additions as well, when I can (my work firewall blocks his site for some reason).

Also, in the interest of pointing out other coverage of the best pirate-themed JavaScript conference on the East Coast, here are a few other blogs that have posted cool wrap-ups:

• Cowboy, a.k.a. Ben Alman, posted this great summary of the talks he attended, complete with photos
• Kevin Dangoor posted a similar wrapup to his own blog, with some nice commentary on Day 1 talks.
• Ted Leung did a great overview of the conference as a whole
• Rey Bango posted a bunch of awesome video interviews he took while attending. Go. Watch. I'll wait.

Oh, and in only-slightly-related news, I'm now on Reddit. Don't know that I'll post there much, but thought it was worth mentioning.

Finally, a note on plans. I think enough people appreciated these "In Case You Missed It" posts, that I'm going to try to keep doing them — at least when the conference interests me. Here are the next few I've got my eye on covering, time permitting:

Conference	Date
GDC Canada	6-7 May
Google I/O	19-20 May
TXJS	5 Jun
VSLive!	2-6 Aug
GDC Austin	5-8 Oct
JSConf.eu	25-26 Sept