Building My Resume

My resume is available in multiple formats, but I don't have to do any annoying manual synchronization between the XHTML and ASCII text versions. I make my content changes in one file, run a command, and several different versions are automatically built for me.

I used the apparently defunct but still useful XML Resume Library to create an XML file with all my resume information. The process blends two worthwhile attributes: usefulness and coolness.

I modified the sample XSL output files to my liking, then automated the build process with Ant, the magic build tool. Ant uses Xalan-J to do the XSLT processing and FOP to generate the PDF document. The files are scp'd to this site by a separate little script.