I think when Jeff Atwood says "portfolio" he means not just things you'd put on your resume, but source code and publicly available articles you've written, and for some reason a twitter account.
But not just "I developed that closed source project, over there." That's what everyone has on their resume.
-- Ninja Edit---
Actually I just looked at Jeff's other article, and apparently what he calls a "portfolio", is what I call a well written resume.