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 required attribute. Set custom validation message? (Fri Mar 11 18:14:11 2011)
How is data stored in an image file (Fri Jun 16 11:02:40 2017)
Convert an image to grayscale in HTML/CSS (Tue Oct 26 23:45:45 2010)
HTML5 Video // Completely Hide Controls (Fri Jan 04 17:08:09 2013)
More usage of getTransformToElement (Sat May 21 20:37:44 2011)
HTML5 Pre-resize images before uploading (Thu Apr 26 13:13:51 2012)
Browsers' default CSS stylesheets (Wed Oct 20 17:48:40 2010)

Twitter

[robertc] I just backed Phoenix Springs ? a neo-noir / mystery / adventure game on @Kickstarter https://t.co/DKEaTXCLPC (Mon Aug 21 10:46:28 2017)
[robertc] I just backed Slice of Life - original short film homage to Blade Runner on @Kickstarter https://t.co/NPQYfpINBF (Mon Aug 21 10:43:55 2017)
[flibitijibibo] XBLIG Preservation: FNA, the Software Ecosystem, and Why You Should Care: https://t.co/1iY6QxAwDV Share this with everyone! #XBLIG #XNA #FNA (Tue Aug 15 17:02:34 2017)
[kissane] I've been mostly offline for awhile but?this amateur "investigation" and doxing of nazis? This is a good way to get innocent people hurt. (Tue Aug 15 16:59:36 2017)
[robertc] A.I.???????????Automatically created by #MakeGirlsMoe: https://t.co/XFb0RUqKhs https://t.co/1B6AawpBd1 (Mon Aug 14 11:35:32 2017)
[robertc] @feralgames Rise of the @tombraider , Valkyria Chronicles Remastered, @LifeIsStrange Before the Storm, any? https://t.co/UPjIlPlUhB (Sat Aug 12 10:23:46 2017)
[robertc] I just backed WASD ? It?s video game culture on @Kickstarter https://t.co/Gd3TuX8k0p (Wed Aug 9 16:35:25 2017)
[robertc] I just backed Sakura on @Kickstarter https://t.co/IzfZJ0eMPH (Tue Aug 8 11:17:36 2017)
[robertc] I just backed Epoch: The Awakening Board Game on @Kickstarter https://t.co/CK5wV8y7fm (Tue Aug 8 11:17:14 2017)

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)