What do you all consider the best way to present your portfolio and I'm also thinking of writing some tutorials.
My ultimate goal is to land more jobs though so in the end that's most important.
Should I do a portfolio on Coroflot, Behance, pay for AIGA membership to do a portfolio there? Should I use Tumblr (I'm not sure if you can write long tutorials on Tumblr or not)? Or should I go with a more traditional blog like WordPress? I find the most jobs through AIGA, Coroflot, Behance, LinkedIn and State Employment websites.
I don't think there's an ideal solution that would work with Behance, Coroflot, AIGA and LinkedIn and the desire to write some tutorials all at the same time. As a result I doubt I'll spend the money on AIGA membership.
I know my current portfolio is working against me not for me and I need to fix this. Open to suggestions.
Tumblr.
Would I be able to write tutorials on it or not so much?
I don't see why not. What would prevent you from doing that?
I don't know much about Tumblr but everything I've seen on there is a short post and I don't think I've ever seen something with more than 1 image on a post.
Well shit I've got to hand it to Tumblr, that took about 15 seconds to setup: http://ryanwaxberg.tumblr.com/
Yeah, it's pretty slick and you can do a lot once you dive into it.
Now I just have to decide how to handle posting stuff I've done in the office. I have no written policy or statement saying about the ownership of the work so I could just post it and if my supervisor ever finds out and gets upset just apologize. Then its just a matter of whether I should go through the motions of asking the clients permission as well.
DERAIL:
Can tumblr be set up to do syntax highlighting somehow?
I imagine you could do something with github gists.
hmm... the embed code doesn't seem to work. ah well, no biggie.
Gist support. Let's see if this badboy works:
SEXAY!
BTW, you wouldn't believe the hoops I had to jump through to get that to work. Including:
- Getting the source of the JS from the github URL on the server side
- Overwriting the document.write method so that I could capture the strings that github outputs
- Wedging that into the oembed framework
Yowzah.
(And evidently it plays hell with the ajax for new posts)
edit: fixed the ajax problem
ooh nice! also nice on the lisp. I've been playing around with it a bit lately.
so do we just paste the embed code?
no, maybe just the url?
https://gist.github.com/1571955.js?file=file1.el
yup, sweet, that's nice.
Oh shit, TRM is using teh Emacs!
Incidentally, TRM/Media, embedding Gist code is a pain in the arse because it uses document.write which plays hell with page rendering. If you're into writing a script to be able to do it with Tumblr I can probably help out, given the backflips I had to do to get the autoembedding to work on 12s.
Originally posted by Stinky
Oh shit, TRM is using teh Emacs!
Ha, yeah, I finally switched over from vi a couple of years ago. Now I live in it.
Originally posted by Stinky
Incidentally, TRM/Media, embedding Gist code is a pain in the arse because it uses
document.writewhich plays hell with page rendering. If you're into writing a script to be able to do it with Tumblr I can probably help out, given the backflips I had to do to get the autoembedding to work on 12s.
Thanks, I think I may just stick with wordpress though. I'm lazy like that. No one reads my blog anyway. heh
Originally posted by Stinky given the backflips I had to do to get the autoembedding to work on 12s.
I do love the new embedded thing you have going on. High 5.
http://gifs.gifbin.com/092009/1252480685_skateboars_vs_wall_backflip.gif
