Developer's Dilemma

I have run into this problem time and time again. I have read several posts on the topic and while I did gain some insight I failed to improve my particular situation. In a conversation today I began to talk about my portfolio. I say I began because I couldn't finish.

I don't have a portfolio. I have done plenty of work, don't get me wrong. I just don't have anything to show for it. How? I am not a designer, I take care of everything underneath after the designer is done with the HTML and the CSS.

How do you show that? How can you display your work if people can't see it visually? Even the functional pieces I have done don't adequately present the time and the effort put in to make them tick.

Yes I could contribute to an open source project... which I've done. I could do a better job about showcases my work there, but do people really want to read through svn commits? Even if they did, does that do the work I've done any justice?

It's unreal I keep facing this problem over and over again. I need to figure out some way of producing something I can show proudly. Something that looks as brilliant from the outside as it does from the inside. Something anyone could understand and appreciate.

I don't know how yet... just give me some time and I'll figure it out.