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

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] I just backed PRIM - a 2D adventure game about Death's daughter on @Kickstarter https://t.co/dVOK71MQtA (Wed Feb 17 11:24:28 2021)
[lancereddick] Dear @xMechanizex and @DestinyTheGame fans: This is for you. #Destiny2 https://t.co/uYYKIuyI25 (Thu Feb 11 14:46:05 2021)
[robertc] I just backed CARNEGIE DELUXE EDITION on @Kickstarter https://t.co/UByXVjRHGr (Sun Feb 7 15:54:04 2021)
[robertc] I just backed BROK the InvestiGator on @Kickstarter https://t.co/QpkqZf2s4a (Thu Feb 4 10:30:13 2021)
[robertc] I just backed Darwin's Journey on @Kickstarter https://t.co/CJqVH9cO5v (Thu Jan 28 09:13:48 2021)
[robertc] I just backed Feel Good While Building Muscle. Happiness Guarantee ? on @Kickstarter https://t.co/tFmX9VsPFA (Tue Jan 12 15:02:51 2021)
[robertc] I just backed Retro Annual 2020 (Plus Retro Format and Eight Bit) on @Kickstarter https://t.co/p8IqxJxaJk (Thu Dec 10 11:05:05 2020)
[Plagman2] Proton 5.13-4 is now available, with Cyberpunk 2077 support! Currently requires an AMD card and Mesa git. Major tha? https://t.co/sdwa3D4RST (Thu Dec 10 10:21:08 2020)
[robertc] I just backed ZZap! 64 2021 Annual on @Kickstarter https://t.co/6IXqU3hZi8 (Sat Nov 28 16:05:41 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)