Michelle Merriweather mmerriweather

Client Questions

An open source list of questions to ask your client/potential clients before kicking off a project by Luke Murphy.

Originally published: 25/02/2014

Technical

Who is responsible for content in your organisation?

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

Backstory: I decided to crowdsource static site generator recommendations, so the following are actual real world suggested-to-me results. I then took those and sorted them by language/server and, just for a decent relative metric, their Github Watcher count. If you want a heap of other projects (including other languages like Haskell and Python) Nanoc has the mother of all site generator lists. If you recommend another one, by all means add a comment.

Ruby

Jekyll 5,676
Octopress 2,696
Middleman 685
NestaCMS 664
Statis 509
Nanoc 355

#Techniques for Anti-Aliasing @font-face on Windows

It all started with an email from a client: Do these fonts look funky to you? The title is prickly.

The font in question was Port Lligat Sans from Google Web Fonts.

The "prickly" is aliasing caused by lack of hinting

	<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
	<html>

	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
	<title>Single-Column Responsive Email Template</title>

	<style>
	@media only screen and (min-device-width: 541px) {
	.content {

	$(function(){

	var formUrl = '/* ex: https://docs.google.com/a/developmentseed.org/spreadsheet/formResponse?formkey=... */';

	// Set up map
	var m = mapbox.map('map').addLayer(mapbox.layer().id(' /* mapbox-account.id */ '));

	// Set up map ui features with point selector
	var ui = mapbox.ui().map(m).auto().pointselector(function(d) {
	// Remove all points except the most recent