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

HTML 5 drag events (Tue Jul 17 22:09:02 2012)
how to add cors in couchDB -- No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource (Fri Jan 03 12:37:12 2014)
html5 form checkValidity() method not found (Mon Sep 12 11:08:26 2011)
Can I define a linear gradient in SVG with a normal/bell-shaped blend? (Wed Aug 11 23:13:59 2010)
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)

Twitter

[robertc] I just backed Twisty Little Passages on @Kickstarter https://t.co/qllgWdnp0D (Thu Jun 13 18:01:13 2019)
[robertc] @AspyrMedia @sanzky The Linux known issues link on your support site goes to the Mac known issues page. (Tue Jun 11 18:35:23 2019)
[robertc] Please @JeffSiadek can you stop using @BackerKit to spam me? You've sent out several emails in the last few days? https://t.co/zCFgTvn2hI (Thu Jun 6 13:36:17 2019)
[robertc] I just backed The Island of El Dorado: Revenge Expansion on @Kickstarter https://t.co/VpdiEQ6rd0 (Tue May 21 18:04:53 2019)
[robertc] @JimSterling In case you didn't see this already: https://t.co/wT910zipIx (Sat May 18 13:19:38 2019)
[robertc] I just backed Monster Prom 2: Holiday Season on @Kickstarter https://t.co/kZTBPajksG (Thu May 16 09:36:23 2019)
[robertc] @NetflixUK I am selecting 'Films' and then 'Available for download' in the Android app, why am I then seeing a whol? https://t.co/AA4lvNIXJO (Thu May 2 17:57:18 2019)
[robertc] I just backed Heroes Ravage - Rise of an NPC : RELAUNCH! on @Kickstarter https://t.co/HjF61MELYk (Tue Apr 30 10:27:01 2019)
[robertc] I just backed Prodeus on @Kickstarter https://t.co/qTCn9POXDF (Wed Apr 24 10:49:47 2019)

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)