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

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)
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)

Twitter

[robertc] I just backed Chained Echoes - a 16bit fantasy RPG with mechs and airships on @Kickstarter https://t.co/peTG0D8YjD (Thu Feb 21 18:33:58 2019)
[robertc] I just backed Break: The Rematch Part 1 on @Kickstarter https://t.co/oAByjyrwyG (Thu Feb 21 18:28:52 2019)
[robertc] I just backed Godhood on @Kickstarter https://t.co/322FJcTX6Y (Thu Feb 21 18:27:57 2019)
[robertc] I just backed Magical Diary: Wolf Hall - Wizard School RPG + Visual Novel on @Kickstarter https://t.co/ULoo1OlNYl (Thu Feb 21 18:26:46 2019)
[robertc] I just backed Carrier Trail - "Oregon Trail" meets Fantasy RPG! on @Kickstarter https://t.co/Th52Zrl5Pb (Thu Feb 21 18:22:18 2019)
[paulcoxon] Hello my name is Paul, I have a PhD in physics and thanks to a random brain freeze forgot the word for photon so ha? https://t.co/wBzix7oH9U (Wed Feb 20 13:09:11 2019)
[robertc] @gumroad Are your two options for email really "Nothing" and "Everything"? How can I opt out of marketing spam but? https://t.co/4VqepSajvu (Thu Feb 14 15:02:21 2019)
[robertc] I just backed Wicked Willow on @Kickstarter https://t.co/Xh9vtfnp4t (Thu Jan 31 03:26:45 2019)
[robertc] I just backed Bios Ex - A psychological Visual-Novel game on @Kickstarter https://t.co/AmjoJz9mw2 (Wed Jan 30 12:19:59 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)