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.

Buy my book!

Book Cover

Hello! HTML5 and CSS3 available now

Buy my other book!

Book Cover

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

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] @ProjectDogmat Hey @ProjectDogmat are you currently in Alpha or Beta? What pre-order would I need to start playing immediately? (Mon Jul 17 14:11:56 2017)
[robertc] I just backed Pathfinder: Kingmaker on @Kickstarter https://t.co/fxKIgiJgHw (Tue Jul 11 17:39:34 2017)
[ORIGINPC] We're giving away 10 Steam Keys for @ShroudofAvatar! Sign up here: https://t.co/ZlBlafzYeX Winners announced next? https://t.co/t5yulSfPjy (Tue Jul 11 10:24:40 2017)
[robertc] I just backed Harold Halibut - A Handmade Adventure Game on @Kickstarter https://t.co/RBfAeuJBCs (Fri Jul 7 15:58:52 2017)
[robertc] Proud to be the 9,666th backer of Phoenix Point on https://t.co/ZnjcxgCR1T! https://t.co/VvJ9jS2Rqe via @playfig (Tue Jun 6 01:37:29 2017)
[robertc] Hey @RedThreadGames the forum appears to be broken: "An error occured with the SQL server" (Fri May 26 11:21:33 2017)
[robertc] Yessss! I am now a proud patron of Ryan C. Gordon on @patreon, and you should be too: #NewPatron https://t.co/oS27IeAdpv (Fri May 12 22:59:07 2017)
[robertc] Hellpoint - a souls-likes sci fi RPG with splitscreen co-op! Try the demo and help us make this game a reality!? https://t.co/7tsz4VILRO (Tue May 9 00:00:11 2017)
[robertc] I just backed ATOM RPG on @Kickstarter https://t.co/Fa4QRUXGSn (Thu May 4 10:44:21 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)