Building a responsive site is hard sometimes, particularly when you want to have a carousel on your page but the plugin you normally use does not have the ability to resize or recalculate when you resize your browser.

[UPDATE 15 Dec 2011] Added some more plugins to the list.
[UPDATE 17 Dec 2011] Added my key binding settings & ‘Textmate-style’ comment banner keyboard shortcut snippet

Having tweeted the above earlier today, I came across a very simple way to bring my need into reality. Google’s best result was this: superuser.com/questions/291922/launching-an-app-n-minutes-after-boot-up but after a little delving I needed something a little better – I needed a way to only launch the given apps if they weren’t already open.

I’m afraid I have added to the abundance of other HTML & CSS boilerplates or frameworks, I created BOOST a framework that takes the best techniques & snippets of what I find useful & puts them together in a neat little package.

Soho Fixed (http://sohofixed.com), the brainchild of my mate, Jolyon, has just been launched. The site showcases fixie bikes built from new & unique reconditioned parts. A few bikes are built each month & they sell on a first come, first serve basis – so you gotta be quick!

I recently read the A List Apart article, Testing Content by Angela Colter I thought about how to easily implement a Cloze test without too much hassle. It turns out that a Cloze test can be done on any content in a few minutes using jQuery & the awesome plugin Lettering.js.