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

Browsers' default CSS stylesheets (Wed Oct 20 17:48:40 2010)
HTML5 form required attribute. Set custom validation message? (Fri Mar 11 18:14:11 2011)
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 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)

Twitter

[robertc] I just backed Potato Pirates: The Tastiest Coding Card Game on @Kickstarter https://t.co/drEX1Z3QJl (Mon Sep 11 17:27:30 2017)
[robertc] I just backed Champions of Hara on @Kickstarter https://t.co/uFyP0XDNNS (Fri Sep 8 11:23:26 2017)
[robertc] I just backed Celestian Tales: Realms Beyond on @Kickstarter https://t.co/v1gxLJzvvD (Fri Sep 8 11:21:37 2017)
[robertc] I just backed Shining Song Starnova: Idol Anime Themed Visual Novel! on @Kickstarter https://t.co/t4Rzuycsym (Fri Sep 8 11:19:52 2017)
[gamingonlinux] @robertc @everspace_game it's only attached to developer keys currently going by what SteamDB shows (Tue Sep 5 11:53:02 2017)
[robertc] @gamingonlinux Looks like @everspace_game has added a Linux launcher https://t.co/ZwUWWcI6u6 anyone tried to download? (Tue Sep 5 11:31:30 2017)
[robertc] I just backed Lona: Realm of Colors on @Kickstarter https://t.co/u58g2HQOuT (Mon Sep 4 15:28:40 2017)
[robertc] @BarclaysUKHelp None of that helped. Set my browser user agent string to be Google Pixel to get in. Easy solution? https://t.co/1CcarsdMgf (Sun Sep 3 17:25:11 2017)
[robertc] @BarclaysUKHelp And why does 'Barclays browser update page' link to a page with no information about updating browsers? (Sun Sep 3 13:56:12 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)