#+TITLE: CV

So, where did this all begin? I used to have my CV as an
OpenOffice.org document. Every time I needed to update it, I fought
with formatting, and ended up rewriting it. I didn't enjoy it. I
just wanted to have my CV content separate and not have to worry
about the formatting. Of course there is always formatting to worry
about, but if I could abstract that away and deal with it later,
that would make me happy.

So the obvious thing to me was to use emacs [[https://orgmode.org/][org-mode]]. I previously
used org-mode to write my dissertation, so had some experience using
it for writing documents. I found a LaTeX stylesheet which I
modified (albeit only slightly) and this allowed me to create a
nicely styled PDF by just writing content into the source file.

At some point, I thought it would be a good idea to make an
executable where the command line flags would output the content of
my CV. This then needed to embed the original data into it, so I had
to carve out the data from the org-mode file and embed it into the
source for the executable.

At this point, I had several languages in play for the project, so I
thought it'd be fun to see how many different languages I could
use. So I wrote another script to convert my CV to a
man-page... because why not.

I have some other things planned for other languages and outputs,
but that's all for now.