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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Early access to HTML5 in Action available now

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

Add OGG Theora Vorbis audio support to IX Web Hoting via htaccess file or markup (Tue Apr 19 13:55:50 2011)
HTML5 canvas, scale image after drawing it (Sun Dec 16 17:21:10 2012)
HTML5 Pre-resize images before uploading (Thu Apr 26 13:13:51 2012)
Drawing rotated text on a HTML5 canvas (Fri Jul 02 18:11:07 2010)
How to proportionally resize an image in canvas? (Sun Dec 30 1:31:37 2012)
Box sizing suddenly stopped working (Wed Jan 29 19:14:17 2014)
how to dynamically update svg using Raphael? (Tue Aug 31 17:04:35 2010)

Twitter

[robertc] @AshBlueWD Register at http://t.co/MSdM5i5Eof (Fri Apr 18 11:04:07 2014)
[robertc] Deal of the Day April 17: Half off my book HTML5 in Action. Use code dotd041714au at http://t.co/VObVg82nLl (Thu Apr 17 14:50:08 2014)
[robertc] Platform change announcements 2 minutes before the train is due, why do @SW_Trains have so little idea where their trains are? (Tue Apr 15 22:10:17 2014)
[swindonstorm] We'd like to wish @FarnhamKnights no.44 Ben Boss a speedy recovery following his injury yesterday. Wouldn't wish that on anyone. #headup (Mon Apr 14 22:15:11 2014)
[robertc] I just backed Chaos Reborn - From the Creator of the Original X-COM on @Kickstarter http://t.co/GzK2iZiT6L (Fri Apr 11 01:47:27 2014)
[robertc] @AshBlueWD @thejamespierce @joelennon http://t.co/X7V8UuXbwj says 7 in stock (Thu Apr 10 00:21:11 2014)
[robertc] I just backed Dragon Fin Soup on @Kickstarter http://t.co/bkMSgfVJKJ (Wed Apr 9 01:20:01 2014)
[robertc] I just backed DUELYST on @Kickstarter http://t.co/jhtWazNDdT (Tue Apr 8 14:44:31 2014)
[FarnhamKnights] This Sunday the Farnham Knights travel to the @swindonstorm in week 1 of the BAFANL 2014 season http://t.co/IBpA8WRZrm #BAFANL #SouthWest (Mon Apr 7 21:41:48 2014)

Pinboard.in

Get Comic Neue (Mon Apr 07 16:23:53 2014)
CanJS (Fri Feb 28 12:45:06 2014)
The Battle for the Body Field · An A List Apart Article (Tue Feb 25 14:41:47 2014)
OCW Bookshelf | Open Matters (Mon Jan 27 11:34:18 2014)
OpenGameArt.org (Thu Jan 09 18:00:48 2014)
PHP: The Right Way (Tue Dec 17 13:05:07 2013)
A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack - Tom Moertel?s Blog (Mon Dec 16 19:50:24 2013)
DLH's Commodore Archive (Sun Nov 24 2:54:45 2013)
clumsy, an utility for simulating broken network for Windows Vista / Windows 7 and above (Thu Nov 21 23:41:56 2013)