http://www.brothercake.com/ Latest news from brothercake en http://www.sitepoint.com/dustmeselectors/ 2008-06-24 Today I released Dust-Me Selectors Version 2.1, the handy Firefox extension that trawls through your style sheets and cleans up unused selectors. The primary change with this version was to add support for Firefox 3. Making this change wasn't a difficult task - all I had to was upgrade to Version 1.0 (beta 3) of base2, and add a couple of UI tweaks. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/captcha-problems-alternatives 2008-05-31 The popular CAPTCHA solution can help lock out robots and reduce spam, but it's far from failsafe - and it causes major accessibility headaches. In this article, James looks at the problems, issues, and alternatives to requiring a human to prove that they're not a bot. http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/stop-using-ajax/ 2008-04-24 In this controversial article, James "Brothercake" Edwards argues that we should stop using Ajax until we have ironed out the issues surrounding its lack of compatibility with accessible technologies such as screenreaders, and suggests how you can stick to accessible web standards-based techniques, instead of resorting to Ajax. http://www.brothercake.com/site/resources/scripts/beatbox/ 2007-09-30 BeatBox is my take on the Lightbox concept, with some particular variations - including semantic and accessible content, configurable proportions, and no library dependencies... http://www.brothercake.com/site/resources/reference/bothways/ 2007-08-30 ... we're still asked to compromise our principles in the name of business logic. Because if we didn't do that there would be no jobs. Because that business logic is what pays for our principles. Except that isn't really true; I think the exact opposite is true - our principles sustain business logic. 2007-08-20 "That which is beautiful is not always good. But that which is good is always beautiful." http://www.sitepoint.com/dustmeselectors/ 2007-07-30 Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension (for v1.5 or later) that finds unused CSS selectors. It extracts all the selectors from all the stylesheets on the page you're viewing, then analyzes that page to see which of those selectors are not used. The data is then stored in your user preferences, so that as you continue to navigate around a site, selectors will be crossed off the list as they're encountered. You'll end up with a profile of which selectors are not used anywhere on the site. http://www.brothercake.com/site/resources/reference/harrypotter/ 2007-05-19 You know how the characters in Harry Potter are always banging on about muggles, and how we're so inadequate we have to use technology, to make up for not having magic? ...