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CodeBurner. Brothercake is a professional web-developer based in the UK, specialising in client-side programming, with a strong focus on accessibility and standards-based development. This website is a portfolio for my work, and a collection of useful resources including scripts, games and articles. There's also some hobbies and personal stuff, and occasionally I rant or sound-off about something or other.

Latest news and stuff

The Live-Wire's Guide to Holding Down a Job
1st February 2010

“A problem I've always had is reconciling some of the more, er, colourful aspects of my personality in the workplace, and sometimes it is necessary to ... shall we say, re-organize your character in order to fit in to a particular situation...”

How do people in Star Trek ever find anything in the computer?
1st February 2010

“You never, ever see people in Star Trek giving their programs meaningful or useful names. And why are programs named after the author anyway, who ever does that?...”

The CodeBurner Family Welcomes Three New Babies!
20th October 2009

“I'm very pleased to announce the launch of CodeBurner Version 1.5. More than an update, it's three (count 'em, three!) new builds as well — extending the CodeBurner family to include an Opera widget, a Mac OS X Dashboard widget, and a standalone app built on the Adobe AIR platform...”

Spice up your Firefox Extensions with a Dash of HTML
20th October 2009

“Want your Firefox extension to stand out from the crowd? Wish extensions were as easy to style as web pages? In this article, James shows us how to give an extension that extra bit of flair by mixing HTML right into an XUL document...”

10 Things They Never Tell You In Firefox Extension School
22nd September 2009

“This is a follow-up article to my recent ebook, Build Your Own Firefox Extension — an extra selection of useful tips, tricks, and hacks that I've collected from my experience with building extensions for Firefox, including CodeBurner, the SitePoint Reference extension...”

New e-book just released - Build Your Own Firefox Add-On
28th July 2009

“If you want to build custom extensions for Firefox, then this is the book for you! With a little JavaScript know-how, you'll learn just how straightforward it is to build your own Firefox extensions. And for a limited time, you can get this e-book FREE when you download CodeBurner for Firefox.”

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A Quick-And-Dirty Way To Update Your Firefox Extensions [2/2]

For Firefox extension users, not extension developers, this post details a simple method for updating your favourite extensions to a new Firefox build, as a stop-gap to tide you over until they're updated properly...

Who's using ARIA [16/9]

And I don't mean developers, I mean real people — actual users, who are browsing the Web with assistive technologies and making use of ARIA enabled applications?...

HTML 4 Considered Harmful [31/7]

I've been advocating the use of XHTML for years, and although I'm not at all sorry that XHTML 2 is dead, I am extremely sorry that so many developers have regressed back to using HTML 4. I'm equally sorry that a good proportion of those forward-thinking developers who have already starting marking-up their content with HTML 5, are doing so using HTML 4 syntax...

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