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

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 form required attribute. Set custom validation message? (Fri Mar 11 18:14:11 2011)
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] 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)
[robertc] I just backed Kate Nash is Making a Record on @Kickstarter https://t.co/BfIHSu6b81 (Thu Apr 13 10:44:49 2017)
[robertc] @tescobankhelp It was an automated call. Someone's added an extra zero on the caller ID: https://t.co/V53BHtGH9R (Tue Apr 11 16:43:17 2017)
[robertc] @tescobankhelp Why does your Fraud Prevention Dept. have a caller ID of a number in Spain? Not inspiring confidence. (Tue Apr 11 11:38:04 2017)
[robertc] I just backed Hellpoint - A Dark Sci Fi RPG on @Kickstarter https://t.co/Swy277o0Dn (Thu Apr 6 18:35:15 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)