Some background on [iFolder](http://www.ifolder.com/ifolder) and how did i find it, a client came up to me with an unique issue. They have an ongoing legal matter that requires them to share large amounts of pdf’s and scanned documents with their lawyers. I run their private E-Mail server for them so I have them setup with high limits for incoming and outgoing attachments, but most other system admins dont because they dont want to clog up their networks with people sending E-Mails of their cats. Also most 3rd party ISPs and e-mail providers (like gmail) put hard caps between 10mb to 30mb which confuses more things. So they needed a way to put files up on a server, shared with others, be secure, and most importantly be dead simple. In comes iFolder!
Now like I said a service like iFolder is [Dropbox](http://www.dropbox.com), but the problem is its not on your server. This is not a issue to most, but for companies and lawyers it scares the hell out of them. Just listen to [TwiL](http://twit.tv/twil) and you get the idea. I am not saying [Dropbox](http://www.dropbox.com) is unreliable or its ToS is bad, and I bet they have some strong provisions, i mean I use them for my own data, but for a company that already has invested in a server and connection they feel its better if everything is kept local. There is merit to that, as time and time again we have seen cases were groups will send legal notices to ISPs and its a crap shoot if they forward the request to the client or not, so their is a chance that your data might be handed over because of a warrant without you knowledge because it was hosted on someone else server.

So setting up iFolder is not straight forward as Novell who supports the project right now has built it on top of .NET, which seems an odd choice, meaning you need MONO on Linux/OS X to run the iFolder Server (And Client). Also officially Novell only releases the rpm packages (you can get the source) and support only SuSE, but, you can easily get it working on other Linux distros with some work. We use [Ubuntu Server](http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatIsubuntu/serveredition) which is great, and a great guide on getting iFolder up and running can be found here [http://www.x2b4.com/howto/how-to-install-ifolder-on-ubuntu-server/](http://www.x2b4.com/howto/how-to-install-ifolder-on-ubuntu-server/). Also great reading is [iFolder Document](http://www.ifolder.com/ifolder/documentation) which has some great tips on how to get going for an Admin, but thats the problem. They are written for a admin to get going. What about the end user? What are you going to give to help them get going?

The [iFolder User Guide](http://www.ifolder.com/docs/ifolder37_user.pdf) is great but a lot of useful info is burred under useless stuff, like LADP settings and etc. Really the user does not care about that, he/she needs to get up and running. So for my client I wrote them a End user guide!
I used LaTeX to make the document and included two pdf extract from the user guide to help clear things up for the end user. I also took screen shots to include in the pdf and excerpts from the iFolder User Guide as two PDF files.

You can Download the PDF here: [iFolder End User Guide](http://zuhaiblog.com/download/iFolder-guide-all.pdf)

You can download the LaTeX code, photos, and PDF excerpts from iFolder User Guide here: [iFolder End User LaTeX Code](http://zuhaiblog.com/download/iFolder-guide.zip)

First little note, this is a post from my old blog that was hosted at typepad.  After seeing the light and moving to wordpress I need to move them here so the links still work =\

After reading a lot about LaTeX, and seeing its powerful use in making documents i decided a good way to learn a lot more about LaTeX is to make a Resume using it.

My Resume: zuhaib-cv-ns.tex, zuhaib-cv.ps (coming soon), zuhaib-cv-ns.pdf

What is LaTeX? Well if your asking that question, you might want to check the link out. But if you have ever read a computer text book, or any document published from a scientific or computer science community there is a very good chance it was made using LaTeX as it provides you more power over simple WYSIWYG editors like Word, especial for texts involving math equations.

Now a few notes about my resume, first is that i used a lot of sites to help make my resume, looking at other peoples works and referring to The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX. This is a good way to get started in anything new i feel, looking at examples and using texts as references as it can be pretty boring to just read.

Back to my resume for it to work you need to have res.cls but the one i used is an edited version of the one found on CTAN. The changes i made was to remove a badly place page break which would come out if you tried to use itemize for your position description which i wanted to use as i like the bullets. I am calling this version of rel.cls 2.09a and i will be e-mailing it to the original writer and see if i can get this incorporated in to the rel.cls on CTAN.

My Rel.cls: rel.cls

The main tex file was based off the one provided by Jason R. Blevins, with some edits you can see in my tex file like to allow for bullets and to add itemize to position and other changes i liked from other people resumes that i will list below.

My tex editor of choice was actually TextMate for OS X, i liked a lot when working in OS X and the fact it and handle a lot of different type of files from LaTeX to just about anything you can throw at it. If your not on OS X, or dont want to play for TextMate, look at Emacs as that is the granddaddy for LaTeX.

To make the PDF and etc files i used the Makefile again from Jason Blevins file, again edited only to fit my needs

My Makefile: Makefile

That is about it i have for my make file, for more i would tell you to read these sites that helped me a lot besides the one i mentioned early

Links

LaTeX Resume Tips
LaTeX CV Template
The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX
How to Write a Killer Resume (for Software Engineers)

And something for you people that must use word:

Give your résumé a face lift