Salaric Shop (by )

I set this shop up ages ago - before I went into hospital but it sliped my mind with everything else that was going on so here it is - there will be new products avaliable - maybe even clothing with Jean on though that probably wont be in the public bit of the shop so you'll have to ask!

Its a print on demand and I get a little bit everytime something is ordered.

The prices are a bit more expensive than I would like but its through a company based in the USA if anyone knows of an English/Uk/European based one then I would be very happy to here abut it!

If there is sufficient interest in one protuct or style then I could get something printed locally and keep a stock but I do not have any start up capital for that at the moment so...

Please go, look and suggest improovements - I know I can alter the look but need to look into that a bit more.

At the moment it is only my photographs being used but I need to get some of my art work scanned propper like for another project so soon T-shirts and postcards will be availible with my artwork on! Though I realise that most people reading this have no idea what my paintings etc... are like - I will endevour to post the photos I took of some of them at some point!

though the shop isnt directly related to my craft blog Salaric it will be linked from there and my Art will be a cross over between the two!

Going Live! (by )

It's not often that I get to actually write about my work other than tangentially, since it's usually somebody's trade secret, but for a long time now I've been doing the technical architecture and some of the programming for an actual publically viewable web site; and it's been under wraps during development, but now the site is soft-launching, I can start telling people about it.

Salaric (by )

Due to people repeatedly asking me how I make certian things out of say fimo and the increase in kiddy crafts with the Scouts I have started an Art and Craft blog rather than just adding more catagories onto this one!

I'll be adding it to our links but for now heres the link http://www.salaric.co.uk/

It will be updated every Sunday - so I hope you'll all go look!

There are currently no pretty pictures on it due to the Unfortunate Insident of Sarah Being Scatty and Losing the Lead for the Camera!

Hope you all enjoy it 🙂

Feline Cannibalism (by )

Spotted in supermarkets all over the UK:

Whiskas Kitten In Jelly

The text reads "Whiskas Kitten In Jelly"...

The implementation of Web applications (by )

I first started Web app development in PHP in 1998. Although PHP as a programming language has many, many, shortfalls, the fundamental model - take an HTML file, change its file extension to bring it to the attention of the PHP module, then stick bits of code in where needed - was great... for the kinds of pages that are the results of simple GET requests; idempotent data-gathering. Code that's purely functional, at least macroscopically.

However, once you started bringing forms beyond search boxes into the mix, things started to go downhill. This first struck me when I had to develop a series of pages that allowed people to register domain names. At the time, this required gathering four sets of contact details (legal registrant, administrative contact, billing contact, and technical contact), along with some technical details. Since, most of the time, all of these sets of contact details would be one and the same, it was decided that we'd start off with a page with a form for the legal registrant's details, and this would have a "Next" button leading to a page with a form for the administrative contact's details, plus a button that would invoke Javascript to fill the form with the legal registrant's details so they could be submitted as-is or modified slightly (perhaps a different person's name, at the same company and postal address), then submitted with a "Next" button that led to the next set of contact details, this time with buttons to prefill with the legal registrant's details or, if they differed, the administrative contact's details. And so on.

And, of course, there was validation; any of these "Next" buttons might well instead bring you back to the page you just came from, with an error flagged, rather than to the next page.

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