My résumé in git log

I was helping a friend shape up his CV/résumé recently. Along the way I thought it would be cool to maybe have a bit more original format than the traditional paper, so I tried it out on mine just for fun:

$ git log career

commit 6f554814186594113ce2060aed3e4240b7fb852e
Author: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@***.com>
Date: Mon Jul 01 11:01:59 2011 +0200

Software developer at Viaboxx Systems

commit 1478c77d52fe41ba855fa2181527a7deea480e58
Author: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@***.com>
Date: Tue Jan 3 10:03:18 2009 +0200

Senior software developer at IP Labs GmbH/FujiFilm Group
- Introduced a range of agile practices, like weekly iterations,
standup-meetings and continuous integration and deployment.
- Lead the first Scrum project, integrating services with FujiFilm
partners across the Atlantic and in Asia.

commit 23265936762d4ccaab8c8c0e4ff088650b4a63e2
Author: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@***.com>
Date: Tue Oct 16 10:02:44 2006 +0200

Consultant at Objectware

Various projects doing on-site training, coaching and development.
Further details and recommendations are available on request.

commit 3af763c404f42fd5deadb266db60f939d6740dbd
Author: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@***.com>
Date: Fri Jan 5 23:46:57 2005 +0200

System developer at Primetime AS

Web application developer. Maintained and improved a Content
Management System, as well as implementing a new one based on open
source software.

commit 00049ded811df3371e143de478a309883a33de6d
Author: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@***.com>
Date: Fri Sep 21 12:18:57 2004 +0200

Consultant at University of Oslo

Prototype project for the IT-tool managing the Quality Assurance Program.
Implemented as a J2EE web-application based on the Apache Struts framework.

$ git log education

commit fc14673f063ec6217c012272ae27d4c1d3e8659e
Author: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@***.com>
Date: Tue Aug 14 14:20:44 2003 +0200

University of Oslo (3 years)

Graduated as MSc, Informatics. Title of master thesis: The Use of
Open-Source and Open Standards in Web Content Management Systems.

commit d646e2774b773c07680aebac651fe05cad54e481
Author: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@***.com>
Date: Tue Aug 14 14:18:40 2001 +0200

Agder University College (2 years)

Studied computer engineering; physics, mathematics, network and
programming.

Not the most readable or printer friendly, but kinda cool.

Next step is to put it in a real git repository. Nice way to filter out non-serious headhunters :)

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Open source CMS evaluations

I have now seen three more or less serious open source CMS reviews. First guy to hit the field was Matt Raible ( 1 2 3 4 ), ending up with Drupal , Joomla , Magnolia , OpenCms and MeshCMS being runner-ups. Then there is OpenAdvantage that tries out a handful ( Drupal , Exponent CMS , Lenya , Mambo , and Silva ), including Plone which they use for their own site (funny/annoying that the entire site has no RSS-feeds, nor is it possible to comment on the articles), following Matt's approach by exluding many CMS that seem not to fit the criteria. It is somewhat strange that OpenAdvantage cuts away Magnolia because it "Requires J2EE server; difficult to install and configure; more of a framework than CMS", and proceed to include Apache Lenya in the full evaluation. Magnolia does not require a J2EE server. It runs on Tomcat just like Lenya does (maybe it's an idea to bundle Magnolia with Jetty to make it seem more lightweight). I'm still sure that OpenAdvant

Encrypting and Decrypting with Spring

I was recently working with protecting some sensitive data in a typical Java application with a database underneath. We convert the data on its way out of the application using Spring Security Crypto Utilities . It "was decided" that we'd be doing AES with a key-length of 256 , and this just happens to be the kind of encryption Spring crypto does out of the box. Sweet! The big aber is that whatever JRE is running the application has to be patched with Oracle's JCE in order to do 256 bits. It's a fascinating story , the short version being that U.S. companies are restricted from exporting various encryption algorithms to certain countries, and some countries are restricted from importing them. Once I had patched my JRE with the JCE, I found it fascinating how straight forward it was to encrypt and decrypt using the Spring Encryptors. So just for fun at the weekend, I threw together a little desktop app that will encrypt and decrypt stuff for the given password

What I've Learned After a Month of Podcasting

So, it's been about a month since I launched GitMinutes , and wow, it's been a fun ride. I have gotten a lot of feedback, and a lot more downloads/listeners than I had expected! Judging the numbers is hard, but a generous estimate is that somewhere around 2000-3000 have listened to the podcast, and about 500-1000 regularly download. Considering that only a percentage of my target audience actively listen to podcasts, these are some pretty good numbers. I've heard that 10% of the general population in the western world regularly listen to podcasts (probably a bit higher percentage among Git users), so I like to think I've reached a big chunk of the Git pros out there. GitMinutes has gathered 110 followers on Twitter, and 63, erm.. circlers on Google+, and it has received 117 +'es! And it's been flattr'ed twice :) Here are some of the things I learned during this last month: Conceptually.. Starting my own sandbox podcast for trying out everythin

The academical approach

Oops, seems I to published this post prematurely by hitting some Blogger keyboard shortcut. I've been sitting for some minutes trying to figure out how to approach the JavaZone talk mentioned in my previous blog-post. Note that I have already submitted an abstract to the comittee, and that I won't publish the abstract here in the blog. Now of course the abstract is pretty detailed on what the talk is going to be about, but I've still got some elbow room on how to "implement" the talk. I will use this blog as a tool to get my aim right on how to present the talk, what examples to include, what the slides should look like, and how to make it most straightforward and understandable for the audience. Now in lack of having done any presentations at a larger conference before, I'm gonna dig into what I learned at the University, which wasn't very much, but they did teach me how to write a research paper, a skill which I will adapt into creating my talk: The one

Managing dot-files with vcsh and myrepos

Say I want to get my dot-files out on a new computer. Here's what I do: # install vcsh & myrepos via apt/brew/etc vcsh clone https://github.com/tfnico/config-mr.git mr mr update Done! All dot-files are ready to use and in place. No deploy command, no linking up symlinks to the files . No checking/out in my entire home directory as a Git repository. Yet, all my dot-files are neatly kept in fine-grained repositories, and any changes I make are immediately ready to be committed: config-atom.git -> ~/.atom/* config-mr.git -> ~/.mrconfig -> ~/.config/mr/* config-tmuxinator.git -> ~/.tmuxinator/* config-vim.git -> ~/.vimrc -> ~/.vim/* config-bin.git -> ~/bin/* config-git.git -> ~/.gitconfig config-tmux.git -> ~/.tmux.conf config-zsh.git -> ~/.zshrc How can this be? The key here is to use vcsh to keep track of your dot-files, and its partner myrepos/mr for o