dytrivedi

Out of curiosity, what was the change that you made?

Ditto. I'd love this as a vim colorscheme.

Already ordered the book!

Umm here's mine - http://www.scribd.com/doc/26089345/Dhaval-Trivedi

Hope it gives some pointers!

Here's what I read in google reader -

Coding horror http://feeds.feedburner.com/codinghorror/

Daring Fireball http://daringfireball.net/index.xml

Derek Sivers http://sivers.org/en.atom

Devour http://feeds.feedburner.com/devourfeed

DZone Refcardz http://feeds.dzone.com/zones/refcardz

Geek and Poke http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/atom.xml

Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/index.xml

Hacker News Daily http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/index.rss

Learn Something Everyday http://cargocollective.com/feed-rss.php?url=learnsomethingev...

Lovely Package http://lovelypackage.com/feed/

Pattern Tap http://patterntap.com/rss

Paul Graham http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessays.rss

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal http://www.smbc-comics.com/rss.php

SVN http://feeds.feedburner.com/37signals/beMH

Steve Yegge http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

The Big Picture http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/index.xml

XKCD http://xkcd.com/atom.xml

1. Just start. That'll help you to get into flow - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html

2. JFDI - http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/design-process/ten-produ...

+1 for Zen & The Art of MC Maintenance

My resume, which also uses a QR code (nothing too fancy, though) - http://advancewith.us/stuff/Resume.pdf

If I were you, I'll take up a job, get a Mac, learn some Objective C and churn out an iOS app. Lowest investment (both money and time) required to make some serious money. Plus no risk as there's a job already.

Godel, Escher, Bach

SICP

Art of Computer Programming

C Programming Language

Introduction to Algorithms

Land of Lisp

-- Extracted from my wishlist - http://flipkart.com/wishlist/dhavaltrivedi

SEEKING WORK Let's see! http://advancewith.us/stuff/Resume.pdf http://about.me/dytrivedi

I was very much into freelancing until I joined my full time job since last 3 months.

I started out with $10/hour (in India) and was up to $50/hour which made me some decent money. I usually charged hourly as estimates are fragile (even after a lot of experience). It used to come to around $30000/year (considering some 600 hours of work yearly). Adjusting lifestyle, that is equivalent or more, compared to $100K in the US.

Work areas - Front End Dev., JS, iOS Apps.

Me - http://about.me/dytrivedi http://advancewith.us/stuff/Resume.pdf

PS: Clients pay for quality work/code. Don't hesitate to raise rates if you think you're worth. Can be determined by demand.

109 WPM according to TypeRacer.

Where's Gödel, Escher, Bach?

Heyo olivvv!

Thanks for your feedback man; your input on making the design more homogeneous is certainly worthy; I didn't notice it from that perspective. And umm, well, Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance is kinda more of a philosophical / metaphysics of quality book :p

Cheers,

Dhaval

Btw if you observe closely, the icon preceding 'programming is an art' is Mona Lisa's portrait and the once preceding 'on his way to become a hacker' is the hacker emblem!

I think your feedback about icon placement is quite correct; they should be uniformly placed at the end of sentences. Also, thanks for pointing out typos. The initial section is indeed about an 'objective'.

There are some of the points that I would like to explain (and not defend ;-)). I'm based out of India, and a lot of companies here are quite traditional - upto an extent that they block facebook and gmail in the office.

I have listed a set of things which are out of context, but then I want to ensure that I want to get hired by somebody who actually understands the importance of IRC, Joel's views, etc. How to win friends and influence people = people skills, which I think connects with other aspects like Peopleware, Developer happiness and motivation, etc.

Finally, having an objective insight from another perspective is very helpful, and thanks for doing so! All the inputs that I'm getting are being taken into consideration and will help me further refine the CV.

Cheers!

Thanks, this will be really helpful. I've looked at hresume microformat and as I mentioned in the original post, I was actually going to implement it that way.

The reason for including a lot of other non-professional things was that I would like to be hired by somebody who understands a lot of them; be it a one man startup. I have often found that 'jelling' is more important than technical competencies.

Thanks for your feedback.

Hmmm I think you made a point - of having the cover letter content into the resume. I have especially noticed one thing with some start-ups - they prefer a 'cultural, personal' jelling. I put personal information, thinking of that.

Greetings from India. Just purchased eBook + Print. Thanks a bunch for discount. I look forward to become a LISPer. Cheers!

#1 is very true. This is beyond usual thinking and logic, but what's deep inside your subconscious plays a major role in your current state. I've ignored examining it for quite a while and BOOM! - I was unproductive, procrastinating, not able to concentrate, and what not. You'll be quite amazed by the fact that how irrelevant a thing could be lying in your subconscious. I suggest examining your life in great details and find out what's going wrong. And then immediately fix it!