Rob Swan

Director

Rob established Fuelled on Coffee Limited in 2006. He holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Sussex

Rob is a web standards groupie, a PHP programmer, and a fervent believer in the value of usability studies. Once Fuelled on Coffee has enough momentum to run itself he has strong ambitions to become a prolific book writer.

Previous jobs have included web developer for the University of Sussex Web Team, and a lead functionality tester for XBOX, Playstation 2, and mobile phone games at Babel Media.

Rob is a keen photographer and SCUBA diver, and has an unhealthy love of country music and black coffee.

Selected publications

Conflicting Absolute Positions

A List Apart, July 2007

Producing a layout in which a fixed-width scrolling side "pane" and flexible scrolling main "pane" must resize to fill all available space in a browser window.

In Defense of Difficult Clients

A List Apart, November 2006

It’s only by being forced to question our beliefs that we can be certain they’re right

Sliced and Diced Sandbags

A List Apart, August 2006

Automating text flow around an irregular outline with PHP