Time to update the résumé?
Well, not in the way you think ;-) I am quite happy with my current job, but for some reasons I never quite got through to really announcing my move.
So this morning I was prompted to come out of my laziness by Gianugo ’s post and by his updating his LinkedIn profile.
Check out my updated profile, on LinkedIn, then have a look at Sourcesense, the company I am now working for. This is a pretty major change from my previous position in I.Net, since I now get to work on interesting projects for world-class customers, using Open Source software and working side by side with some of the most talented people in the industry. I am also attending and speaking at conferences, and I’m definitely looking forward to contributing to some interesting projects (more on this later when I have things going).
I haven’t updated my résumé yet (it was mentioned to me that it needs some work), but when I do I will also check out hResume (from Francesco via Gianugo), a microformat geared towards (guess what?) writing résumés. I only had a quick look so far, but it looks: it tries to reuse existing microformats (like hCard for both your contact infos and for companies you have worked for), but until extensions such as Firefox Tails add support for it it will only look like a mish-mash of hCards and hCalendars.
Regardless, it should still be a step in the right direction, and to answer Gianugo, yes I do think this is on the right track to a Sematic Web. The nice thing about microformats is that they cost you next to nothing (the syntactic markup and the extra classes are not so ugly, and they are handy for styling anyway), yet they allow for very powerful behavior (scripting support in Tails has only begun to scratch the surface). What you probably mean is that there is not enough software support there to make the benefits stick out, and that I will concede to you; but once there is, we’ll all reap the fruits: no more fighting with copy and paste of multiple lines to save an address, one click adding of a person to Address Book directly from the browser, and so on.
Actually, sounds like something we should be working on ;-)
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