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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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

Alternative HTML syntax (Wed Nov 03 12:23:10 2010)
Populate tabular report (multiple records) with particular values (Thu Jul 02 14:42:30 2009)
Table cell loses border when css gradient filter is applied in IE8 (Thu Aug 12 11:24:03 2010)
Is it possible to use any HTML5 fanciness to export local storage to Excel? (Tue Jul 20 18:27:41 2010)
dximagetransform.matrix, absolutely position child elements not rotating in IE 8 standards mode (Wed Jun 16 22:16:14 2010)
JS encodeURIComponent result different from the one created by FORM (Sat Apr 10 13:56:40 2010)
HTML 5 drag events (Tue Jul 17 22:09:02 2012)

Twitter

[robertc] @GreenManGaming Going to try getting at least part way through my current gen backlog before I start building up th? https://t.co/C4YRsTTl4u (Tue Sep 22 09:56:31 2020)
[robertc] @NFLonCBS There is nobody in the stands, why is the crowd noise drowning out the commentators? (Sun Sep 13 19:08:10 2020)
[robertc] @theSdev @gtrxman @firefox The "universal means for going back" exits the application (Tue Sep 1 10:22:53 2020)
[robertc] @IOInteractive @paddy2k @GoogleStadia @stadiasource Seems that the way you've implemented it spoils the ending of H? https://t.co/Z1sSSWpw2s (Tue Sep 1 10:18:14 2020)
[robertc] I just backed Palmiotti & Johnson's POP KILL issue 2 adult comic book on @Kickstarter https://t.co/mBp0Se7PXx (Sat Aug 29 10:42:53 2020)
[robertc] @firefox It's got: no back button. Cherry on top: when I click on the support link I get directed to a page which? https://t.co/nBFW4UZxMf (Thu Aug 27 16:01:29 2020)
[cybik] https://t.co/yG7NKk04MO (Tue Aug 25 14:18:26 2020)
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[robertc] I just backed By Man & Angels - A Sci-Fi Fairytale Comic on @Kickstarter https://t.co/lNtgJapCuI (Mon Aug 17 21:31:23 2020)

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)