[wyclif]

This will sound obvious, but since someone else commented about your portfolio: open a Github account if you haven't already. Push all your work there. Put the link to your Github on your resume and on your blog. Put your resume online, use Zerply or one of the other services. Link to that from your blog as well.

The above works best in conjunction with the other advice here: get into the open source software world. Hang out on IRC while you're working. Read the documentation. Blog what you're learning. Make the most of free resources. Go to meetups related to technologies you're learning if you can.