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

Having an issue with setUTCHours (Sat Jan 24 12:24:55 2015)
Can I define a linear gradient in SVG with a normal/bell-shaped blend? (Wed Aug 11 23:13:59 2010)
Are form elements outside of a FORM tag semantic html5? (Sat Mar 26 14:33:05 2011)
Why is this input valid (Thu Sep 11 17:25:08 2014)
printing just canvas element on a page (Tue Jan 18 1:00:41 2011)
Multiple images preview are not showing (Thu Aug 21 16:36:02 2014)
HTML5 Geolocation API is not working on JSFiddle (Wed Jul 30 17:22:18 2014)

Twitter

[robertc] I just backed But I love you. [A horrific take on dating sims] on @Kickstarter http://t.co/9orda4ZScz (Fri Jan 30 16:21:33 2015)
[robertc] @TfL At High Barnet for ten minutes, none of the trains which departed in that time corresponded to what the dot matrix said (Wed Jan 21 10:08:15 2015)
[philiplord] It's okay. Made my own! http://t.co/kgyu1GRHGR (Fri Jan 16 10:15:43 2015)
[TheIndyFilm] The Lego Movie director makes his own Oscar after surprise snub http://t.co/azp3JDELzc http://t.co/RvZblK5G8T (Thu Jan 15 15:08:11 2015)
[robertc] I just backed Shadowrun: Hong Kong on @Kickstarter http://t.co/qpTANCEWke (Thu Jan 15 00:39:11 2015)
[robertc] I just backed Echo Tokyo - An Open World Dating Sim & Visual Novel. on @Kickstarter http://t.co/kYFdgMIYuD (Sun Jan 4 00:23:17 2015)
[deitarion] @GOGcom An ironic thing to post as you introduce encrypted installers that fit TET's definition of DRM. http://t.co/VDPM7rW7O3 (Tue Dec 30 12:39:17 2014)
[robertc] @BootsHelp It's OK, I've decided to have nothing to do with Boots from now, seems safer (Mon Dec 29 21:11:40 2014)
[robertc] @AshBlueWD Yes, I think it's a worthwhile idea, seems unlikely to reach the funding target though (Mon Dec 29 21:09:45 2014)

Pinboard.in

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)
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