Writing a Good Technical Resume

SuperMallen writes: As a newly minted hiring manager, I've spent the last few weeks plowing through the large pile of resumes for one of my open positions. The varying formatting and quality of the resumes has stunned me. People do everything from a short list of jobs and positions to essays on each and every project they ever though about in a job. Everyone seems to subscribe to the "here's a giant pile of technologies I'm familiar with at the top" school, but I usually ignore this and go straight for their past work history and glean from there.

Surely the Slashdot community can help point out what's good formatting and content for technical resumes. I'd love to also see some good sample resumes people have used in the past and any good websites or book recommendations on how to write these effectively, so we can all spend less time reading and writing bad ones.