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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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

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)
Convert an image to grayscale in HTML/CSS (Tue Oct 26 23:45:45 2010)

Twitter

[Plagman2] Just pushed a Steam Play whitelist update to reflect current testing results: https://t.co/RaolTnIQId Thanks to? https://t.co/yYB6t323ZC (Mon Oct 8 14:31:19 2018)
[llamasoft_ox] Well fuck. RIP Ben Daglish. Amazing talent and an absolutely lovely bloke with it. Fuck. :( (Thu Oct 4 15:43:02 2018)
[robertc] I just backed The Sundew, a pixel art adventure inspired by cyberpunk on @Kickstarter https://t.co/A0yx5cA5QH (Wed Oct 3 17:02:31 2018)
[robertc] I just backed Meeple Station on @Kickstarter https://t.co/o6ilfbrsWx (Thu Sep 6 10:17:52 2018)
[robertc] @TfL Train leaves Finchley Central displaying next station West Finchley on the dot matrix display, arrives in Mill? https://t.co/4tRfLKOT5h (Tue Sep 4 19:16:54 2018)
[robertc] Apparently 26th August 2009 was that memorable day I got a bunch of stock photos on my phone. https://t.co/AgIyc5QQli (Sun Aug 26 09:49:45 2018)
[robertc] @O2 I have been monitoring. I have not seen the advert again but most Google apps are still non-functional. (Fri Aug 24 19:37:33 2018)
[feralgames] *Sigh* 5PM on a Friday, we're getting ready for the #BankHolidayWeekend to start, and the Feral Radar decides to k? https://t.co/M4nH5rCI29 (Fri Aug 24 17:56:11 2018)
[robertc] I just backed One Zero Three on @Kickstarter https://t.co/ShhaZ30Fdg (Wed Aug 15 11:19:56 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)