Building a Kickass Portfolio

Re:Building a Kickass Portfolio by philipmjohnson on Thursday August 02, 2018 @09:28PM (#17676719)

I teach software engineering to about 120 undergraduates a year, and require them to build a professional portfolio during the first week of class. I used to have them use WordPress, but the results were very uneven. To enable them to focus on content until their skills were sufficient to create a non-embarrassing custom design, I created the open source project TechFolios:

http://techfolios.github.io/

I've just finished a MVP of a desktop app in Electron for creating TechFolios called TechFolio Designer:

http://techfolios.github.io/designer.html

I would be interested to know of similar sites/approaches.

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Re:Building a Kickass Portfolio by spyhi on Thursday August 02, 2018 @09:37PM (#17676752)

Oh hey Dr. Johnson, fancy seeing you here!

Here is an example of TechFolios in the wild [1] which I built while I was in his class. https://spyhi.github.io/

(I’ve let it fall a bit out of date since the class, but this thread is good inspiration!)

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Re:Building a Kickass Portfolio by rainonmoon on Thursday August 02, 2018 @09:46PM (#17676779)

Hey, this is pretty nice! The grey in the nav bar is a little severe for my taste but I really appreciate that it loads fast even on my mediocre connection. Seems like a neat tool.

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Re:Building a Kickass Portfolio by ngold on Friday August 03, 2018 @12:27AM (#17677279)

Nice work. I'm replying just to bookmark this and look into it further. Thanks.

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Re:Building a Kickass Portfolio by wongma on Friday August 03, 2018 @01:48AM (#17677540)

Did you know you can add comments to a favorites list? Click on the comment's time stamp, e.g. '3 hours ago' and on the next page there will be a 'favorite' link right above the comment.

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