Wondering if there are any non-profit clojure development projects that I can join

@engrdroid there are plenty of Clojure projects on github, for instance Overtone is one that comes to mind

Quil is another one and I am sure there are plenty of others.

I have a design problem. I have to display some 10 paintings. Problem is that some of them are landscape or some are not. Also they do not have the same dimensions. I pull the images out of a external api. Is there a way I can dynamically resizes them so they all be equal without loosing that the image will be blurred.

Or is there some designer who for free can think how to display the paintings on a beatifull way so the site works on desktop, tablet and mobile

@roelofw You can set the image as a background image, instead of an <img /> that way you can use background-size: cover to have it cover the div.

<div style="background-size: cover; width: 100%; height: 300px; background-image: url({{url-for-painting}});"></div>

Alternatively you can use contain instead of cover if it's important to show the whole image, and not just a contained form

dominicm oke, I did that earlier but with a small image the image is still blurred

@roelofw It will only be blurred if you're making it significantly bigger.

yep, and that is the case

or I have to find a way, I can make a bigger image out of the api but then the image is in pieces

but the question is about the first page , the page where I display 10 images

I have now this for the FrontPage , but this does not work on a tablet or mobile

https://lit-lowlands-46138.herokuapp.com/

Scaling an image to make it large will always make it bigger (making 10 pixels out of 1 is going to create distortion)

@roelofw http://masonry.desandro.com/ how about this?

I think if you just centered them they would look fine

its just jarring because they are left aligned

jarring ? @dpsutton

makes it look not put together or deliberate

if you just center them i think they would look fine

> jarring: incongruous in a striking or shocking way; clashing.

oke

otherwise i think it looks quite nice

the borders are a nice baroque touch!

yes, I did it because most of them are all old paintings

What do you think of this idea : http://wedesignthemes.com/html/redart/default/

there's a lot going on there

but its neat

@dpsutton maybe this one : http://themes-pixeden.com/landing/urku/portfolio-masonry.html

@roelofw that one seems to use http://masonry.desandro.com/

I have used this also for the ruby project which I now try to convert to a clojure project

yep, that one has incoperated masonary into another template engine

or something like this : http://preview.themeforest.net/item/ultimate-one-page-html5-portfolio-template/full_screen_preview/10821317

@roelofw I just took a look at your heroku site and my thought is the frame you have chosen is too dark. Especially against the light background I kept finding my eyes drawn to the frames and not the images.

oke, any advice for a better frame or another background ?

my idea was to give it a impression that the paintings are against a wall like a musea

@cptully

My thought would be to have frame that is brighter so that it's texture can be picked up in a glance and so that the frame is less of a sharp contrast with the background. That does go contrary to your goal of being "like a museum" but remember that you are building a digital museum where there are no shadows. So you loose some of the environmental feel that museums get be having large deep frames. You are living in a flat 2D world so color and contrast will dominate where shadows and highlights dominate in a physical space.

oke, I thinking to drop this layout and go for the urku of ultimate layout but with the frame idea

@cptully maybe like this : http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-gold-leaf-oil-painting-frame-100-to-200-years-old-dropped-out-on-white-24782447.html

@roelofw That one should work much better!

@cptully oke, tben now find a good layout which can work on a desktop, a tablet or mobile

maybe something like this : http://www.spab-rice.com/themeselector/?theme=avoc-html

any tools exist that sit kinda on top of nginx logs and config that let you configure things easily to mitigate ddos?