This the source code for my resume in LaTeX and also the functionality to support a cover letter.
In order to build the resume from source, execute make resume which will build the resume from
source. You can open build and open the file via make view.
This will only works on Mac OS, but Linux/Windows support should be a pretty easy integration and the primary driver for building the resume is Apache Maven.
Each build is dependent on a properties file, which should contain the following entries:
filename=MyResume.json #The name of the resume source file, located in the data directory.
filetype=json #The resume source file type (XML and JSON currently supported).
outputfilename=MyResume.tex #The output file name, located in the out directory.
templatefilename=MyResume.vm #The template the resume will be based on, located in the template directory.The default properties file is resume.properties in the root of this project. However another
properties file can be passed to the make run, make resume, or make view target using the
properties argument, for example:
make view properties=other.resume.properties
There are a few prerequisites that need to be installed/configured to complete the build process:
I use Maven to build the Java modules of the project. For more on Maven, see here
I am using a makefile to control the build process for the entire build cycle of the resume (cleaning, building from source, converting to a PDF). For more info on makefiles, check here.
The Jackson Project is used to parse JSON (and XML) data and bind it to POJO Resume objects to de-couple the data and its implementation. For more information on the Jackson Project see here
Project Lombok is a build tool used to reduce boilerplate code in java, see here. I'm a little iffy on if I should use it because it requires a plugin for IntelliJ to prevent my IDE from yelling at me. But for now, it's part of the project.
LaTeX is a document preparation system that uses plain text and translates into formatted text, see here. This way I can build the resume PDF programmatically, and have the implementation be independent of the resume itself.
To be transparent, the LaTeX modules included in this project are largely ripped (all credit due) from here here.
Travis CI is a continuous integration service that can be found here.
I use Travis CI to automate the testing process and enforce a uniform set of tasks to be executed whenever a new commit is made on the project.