http://www.brothercake.com/ Latest news from brothercake en http://www.brothercake.com/site/resources/scripts/transitions2beta/ 2010-07-21 Take a sneak-peak at the forthcoming 2.0 upgrade to my popular Image transitions script - with awesome new effects including skew, twist, grow, flip, slide, blinds and checkerboard ... http://www.brothercake.com/site/resources/scripts/formtools/ 2010-06-04 FormTools is a collection of utilities for enhancing the usability of forms. It can do a whole bunch of useful and inventive things, such as creating masked-password fields (like on iphones and other handhelds), or adding "show password" checkboxes, or "caps-lock" warnings to password fields. It can also handle clearing and restoring default values, adds single-click to select-all, and implements maxlength for textareas ... http://www.brothercake.com/site/resources/terms/ 2010-06-04 After a number of requests from users, I've switched to BSD licensing for all downloadable material on this site, rather than lGPL as I was using before. People were complaining that the viral nature of lGPL is an issue for them, because of its requirement that all derivative works be released under the same license. BSD licenses do not have this restriction, and are therefore a better choice. http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/next-gen-drop-cap 2010-05-27 Recently I wrote about the drop-cap technique used in the newly re-designed SitePoint Blogs, and one comment in particular really caught my interest, because it was asking about a situation I'd never even considered: a drop cap where the text flows around the shape of the letter, rather than just around its bounding box, so the letter feels more like a part of the text and less like a separate entity... http://www.brothercake.com/site/resources/scripts/cssutilities/ 2010-04-04 Today I'm very pleased to be releasing something I've been working on for nearly six months! CSSUtilities is a JavaScript library that provides a set of unique and indispensible methods for querying CSS style sheets, such as listing all the rules that apply to an element, telling you the properties it inherits, or the media they apply to, or the specificity of any selector. CSSUtilities is even more accurate and detailed than Firebug! (Seriously!) Yet it's available to ordinary, unprivileged code that runs in any contemporary browser. CSSUtilities can provide data which is impossible to derive with built-in query methods, and way beyond the scope of general-purpose libraries, which is no surprise really - to provide this level of data a library would have to essentially implement a complete CSS parser ... everything but the rendering. And that's exactly what I've done here ... http://www.brothercake.com/site/home/accessibility/#styles 2010-04-12 I've just updated the stylesheet switcher with a new "Custom colors" option. This allows you to specify your own foreground and background colours, in a high-contrast two-tone layout. This is intended as an accessibility feature, for anyone who finds particular colour combinations easier to read. http://www.brothercake.com/site/portfolio/tools/codeburner/ 2010-02-16 I'm pleased to announce the hotly awaited update to CodeBurner, our popular developer tool for Firefox and Firebug, bringing it up to date with Firefox 3.6. And keep watching this space, as there are further updates to all versions coming very soon... http://www.brothercake.com/site/resources/reference/livewire/ 2010-02-01 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... http://www.brothercake.com/site/resources/reference/startrek/ 2010-02-01 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?... http://www.brothercake.com/site/portfolio/tools/codeburner/ 2009-10-20 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... http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/firefox-extensions-with-html/ 2009-10-20 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... http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/ten-tips-firefox-extensions 2009-09-22 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... http://www.brothercake.com/site/portfolio/books/byofirefoxpdf/ 2009-07-28 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. http://www.brothercake.com/site/portfolio/tools/codeburner/ 2009-07-28 I've just released a new version of CodeBurner, the popular reference extension to Firebug, this time as a stand-alone Firefox add-on. The specialised interface in this new version gives far more room for reference information without becoming cluttered. It also has a lower browser specification, since it works in Firefox 2 and has no other add-on dependencies.