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lurkmoophy / clientquestions.md
Last active November 27, 2016 16:51
A List of Questions for a Potential Client

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?
@lelandbatey
lelandbatey / whiteboardCleaner.md
Last active April 25, 2024 02:01
Whiteboard Picture Cleaner - Shell one-liner/script to clean up and beautify photos of whiteboards!

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

@tinabeans
tinabeans / template.html
Last active February 13, 2024 09:18
A super-barebones single-column responsive email template, assuming a max-width of 540px. Read about it on the Fog Creek blog.
<!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 {
@malarkey
malarkey / Contract Killer 3.md
Last active April 16, 2024 21:44
The latest version of my ‘killer contract’ for web designers and developers

When times get tough and people get nasty, you’ll need more than a killer smile. You’ll need a killer contract.

Used by 1000s of designers and developers Clarify what’s expected on both sides Helps build great relationships between you and your clients Plain and simple, no legal jargon Customisable to suit your business Used on countless web projects since 2008

…………………………

@dhcole
dhcole / form.js
Created November 3, 2012 19:31
Submit data from html form to Google Doc Spreadsheet. Uses Bootstrap components for auto-complete region list and date selection.
$(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
@davatron5000
davatron5000 / gist:2254924
Created March 30, 2012 20:57
Static Site Generators

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

@dalethedeveloper
dalethedeveloper / gist:1846552
Created February 16, 2012 17:18
Techniques for Anti-Aliasing @font-face on Windows

#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