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by mwhite 5344 days ago
Not bad, a nice simple hosted resume solution. I'm not a designer but it seems to me that the visual distinction achieved by the indentation on the left side of resume items could be improved a bit. It all seems kind of mashed together and somehow hard on the eyes.

As mentioned in another comment, http://re.vu is a totally different approach that attempts to enable slick display of a ton of information.

I still prefer what I currently use: Markdown + pandoc + github + bit.ly. That gives me the following:

1. Version control, backup and hosting from Github.

2. Plain text for posting in the occasional web form or whenever else I might need a plain text resume.

3. One-command conversion to PDF using pandoc with a very simple LaTeX header (which I could automate with git hooks if I was lazy enough).

4. One-command conversion to HTML using pandoc, with a CSS file. I can jazz up the CSS and then print to PDF from my browser if I ever want something prettier.

5. Readable URLs using bit.ly that point to the latest version, for which I can easily view analytics by appending +, including country and referrer: http://bit.ly/mwhiteresume and http://bit.ly/mwhiteresumepdf

6. The awesomeness that is Github's Markdown style.

http://github.com/mwhite/resume

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What does a live version of your resume look like, if you don't mind me asking?

Would love to see the final version.

I usually send people the Github markdown one as my main version: http://bit.ly/mwhiteresume. Then there is the PDF: http://bit.ly/mwhiteresumepdf. I don't really use the HTML but here it is: http://mwhite.info/resume/resume.html. Looks better than I remembered.