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

Drawing rotated text on a HTML5 canvas (Fri Jul 02 18:11:07 2010)
How do you check if a HTML5 audio element is loaded? (Wed Nov 09 1:49:20 2011)
Which HTML5 tag should I use to mark up an author?s name? (Sat Sep 03 1:13:43 2011)
html5 form checkValidity() method not found (Mon Sep 12 11:08:26 2011)
What does idl attribute mean in the WHATWG html5 standard document? (Mon Sep 10 15:52:20 2012)
What is the type of "ref" in javascript (Fri Dec 15 18:21:34 2017)
HTML5 Video // Completely Hide Controls (Fri Jan 04 17:08:09 2013)

Twitter

[robertc] @AmazonUK Will you ever be able to give us an option to opt out of you using certain carriers? @RoyalMail suck and? https://t.co/eC49Fxnu9y (Thu Dec 6 17:24:06 2018)
[robertc] @firefox I received an email about streaming some concerts, clicked the unsubscribe link to be told: "You?re now op? https://t.co/uy4ba1qRpx (Wed Dec 5 16:50:12 2018)
[robertc] @TimSweeneyEpic I would love to see you support open platforms instead of complaining about all the closed ones you? https://t.co/qPqzVR2GSw (Wed Dec 5 11:22:53 2018)
[robertc] @Twitter How can I turn off "Recent tweet from {x}" in my notifications? I already have a place to see recent twee? https://t.co/Ji5E3YAbtl (Wed Dec 5 11:19:50 2018)
[robertc] I just backed ROADQUEEN: ETERNAL ROADTRIP TO LOVE on @Kickstarter https://t.co/tkiCLs36AG (Sun Dec 2 17:25:33 2018)
[robertc] I just backed Sluggish Morss: Pattern Circus on @Kickstarter https://t.co/wwyWwaE66Z (Tue Nov 27 12:18:27 2018)
[robertc] @NeverwinterGame Still failing to load any of my characters in the UK (Sun Nov 25 02:05:30 2018)
[robertc] @GNRailUK Once again the single fast service per hour from Kings Cross to Cambridge is standing room only, when are? https://t.co/RY6iEs5lMz (Sat Nov 17 11:46:02 2018)
[robertc] I just backed Thousand Year Old Vampire: A Roleplaying Game on @Kickstarter https://t.co/jlWwGoXfq8 (Thu Nov 15 11:57:53 2018)

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)