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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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

Populate tabular report (multiple records) with particular values (Thu Jul 02 14:42:30 2009)
Table cell loses border when css gradient filter is applied in IE8 (Thu Aug 12 11:24:03 2010)
Is it possible to use any HTML5 fanciness to export local storage to Excel? (Tue Jul 20 18:27:41 2010)
dximagetransform.matrix, absolutely position child elements not rotating in IE 8 standards mode (Wed Jun 16 22:16:14 2010)
JS encodeURIComponent result different from the one created by FORM (Sat Apr 10 13:56:40 2010)
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)

Twitter

[robertc] Just arrived at #AdvX19 with @AngelMhor https://t.co/Oi8GcZmAIl (Sat Nov 2 10:24:56 2019)
[robertc] @AmazonUK Your Prime Video app on PS4 is a pile of crap. Why does it keep showing me adverts instead of the movie I? https://t.co/vX0BDzlqf0 (Mon Sep 23 16:31:37 2019)
[robertc] I just backed ENCODYA on @Kickstarter https://t.co/0rBCUPOp8X (Wed Aug 14 17:09:51 2019)
[robertc] There are even lootboxes in Asda these days... https://t.co/9HvrMJtbmy (Wed Aug 14 12:14:42 2019)
[robertc] @humble Did I really just have to click so many different buttons that all said 'Cancel My Subscription' in order t? https://t.co/puvudFoMmD (Sun Aug 4 17:36:03 2019)
[robertc] @AskCapitalOneUK It would be helpful if you could answer my question about why you might be invading your customer'? https://t.co/cVqhNRHIwz (Tue Jul 30 14:15:12 2019)
[robertc] @CapitalOneUK I received a letter saying you can't send me emails anymore because "it looks like [I've] not opened? https://t.co/wXSedcjAes (Sat Jul 27 01:13:37 2019)
[robertc] I just backed Kingdoms of the Dump on @Kickstarter https://t.co/95C7SIcEgi (Tue Jul 16 10:34:46 2019)
[robertc] I just backed Destination Fantastic! on @Kickstarter https://t.co/4vdKlweEq3 (Sun Jul 14 12:25:15 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)