Meet Rob Crowther

Rob Crowther is a London, UK based Blogger, Web Developer, Web Designer and System Administrator - read my Curriculum Vitae

This site was originally set up when I was thinking about doing some web development contracting. I never really got into that and, for now, I've given up pretending.

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Hello! HTML5 and CSS3 available now

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Updates

Blog

Tech for Good Meetup - September 2013 (Fri Sep 13 02:30:00 2013)
Upgrading a Geeksphone Keon to Firefox OS 1.1 (Sun Aug 11 00:55:00 2013)
Update: Features for Font Fanatics (Wed Jun 12 00:16:00 2013)
OpenTech 2013 (Thu May 23 02:09:00 2013)
HTML5 in Action is the Manning Deal of the Day! (Tue Apr 9 14:05:00 2013)
Links for June 2011 (Mon Jun 27 03:16:00 2011)

Stack Overflow

html5 form checkValidity() method not found (Mon Sep 12 11:08:26 2011)
What does idl attribute mean in the WHATWG html5 standard document? (Mon Sep 10 15:52:20 2012)
What is the type of "ref" in javascript (Fri Dec 15 18:21:34 2017)
HTML5 Video // Completely Hide Controls (Fri Jan 04 17:08:09 2013)
Convert an image to grayscale in HTML/CSS (Tue Oct 26 23:45:45 2010)
Browsers' default CSS stylesheets (Wed Oct 20 17:48:40 2010)
HTML5 form required attribute. Set custom validation message? (Fri Mar 11 18:14:11 2011)

Twitter

[robertc] I just backed Shadowrun: Sprawl Ops Boardgame on @Kickstarter https://t.co/Z3yggIEQiF (Tue Jun 19 11:58:16 2018)
[robertc] @TLRailUK Your new timetable sucks. Instead of two fast services to Cambridge every hour there is now one massively overfull one (Sat Jun 16 10:44:04 2018)
[robertc] @PapaJohnsUK No matter what your policy says: sending me receipts and order notifications is legitimate interest; o? https://t.co/CnbkJq8geH (Thu Jun 14 12:22:54 2018)
[robertc] Hey @PapaJohnsUK the GDPR says all mailing lists should be opt out by default, why do I have to tick boxes to opt o? https://t.co/Rwnrl0mcX4 (Wed Jun 13 20:00:06 2018)
[robertc] @O2 I'm not clear on how calling me will help? This is a problem on the *Underground* WiFi (Thu May 31 12:07:43 2018)
[robertc] @O2 Here it is: https://t.co/YIaE9iWWvy (Wed May 30 19:22:29 2018)
[robertc] @TheAtari_VCS Why is the Atari VCS? Onyx Early+Joystick bundle more expensive than the console and the joystick sep? https://t.co/CLlPjkrj15 (Wed May 30 16:01:50 2018)
[jeamland] @rianjohnson @thelindsayellis ?I am altering our privacy policy. Pray I do not alter it further.? (Fri May 25 17:49:13 2018)
[Totalbiscuit] John Peter Bain July 8, 1984 - May 24, 2018 https://t.co/XchUMNDYXC (Fri May 25 16:16:33 2018)

Pinboard.in

Rant - Procedural Text Generation for .NET/Mono (Thu Jul 02 10:42:50 2015)
Rooms and Mazes: A Procedural Dungeon Generator ? journal.stuffwithstuff.com (Mon Dec 22 17:30:40 2014)
Pure CSS parallax scrolling websites | Keith Clark (Fri Aug 08 12:21:22 2014)
Procedural Content Generation in Games | A textbook and an overview of current research (Wed Jul 09 11:59:33 2014)
kapowaz: Cargo Cult CSS (Tue May 13 17:39:20 2014)
Game Programming Patterns (Wed Apr 23 10:09:35 2014)
Game Mechanic Explorer (Tue Apr 22 16:43:14 2014)
Get Comic Neue (Mon Apr 07 16:23:53 2014)
CanJS (Fri Feb 28 12:45:06 2014)