Years ago, I figured that an on-line portfolio might be a useful thing to have in my job search efforts. Plus, every now and again I figure that I should review my knowledge of HTML/CSS and maybe improve it some. Attempts at websites have been made in the past but were shut down for various reasons. As Github offers this hosting, I figured I should look into the gitpages option and see how well it works to these ends.
I have been doing software development for over twenty years at this point. Graduated with a Computer Engineering degree at the end of the dot com boom meant that graduation day was spent learning who’s job offers were pulled that morning. I made it through though and managed to get a feel for what I was doing.
Later I decided that I should go back to school and pick up a law degree. Officially this was to expand my employment options and better myself by picking up some knowledge that seemed intriguing. Unofficially I just wanted to be able to quote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with gravitas.
Here is where I plan to put up small projects that I’m working on and anything I feel like sharing. Honestly I don’t expect much to show up quickly; I mean, if I’ve been coding all day at work, I generally have other stuff to do when I get home. But I’ve always got some small projects that I want to dabble in when time can be found.
I’ve got nothing…
Github Pages. I had not been using my Github account enough, and this seemed as good an excuse as any.
Using Jekyll for page creation. At one point I was raiding the monoChrome theme for ideas and CSS, but at this point I’m not sure how much is left from there. Any other stolen or borrowed code should be linked in the html source.