Cav's Place

I know, I’m writing two personal posts in one week once again, but now I actually found myself working on something for a change, so the site is being updated. You can’t see it at the moment and it may be a while until I’ll link to it, because I’m just learning as I go along and there are still things to figure out, but I’m actually making that new index page and the author pages for my little fantasy art gallery and it’s going pretty well, seeing as I just started playing with it last night and I basically already have the scripts themselves.
The first problem that I still have to deal with is the fact that, seeing as I’m just using PHP to determine which bit of JavaScript to put on the page and to pass the variables to said script, I have both PHP and JavaScript handling errors, which currently results in different outcomes when in fact the issues are similar. Of course, there would be no errors if people’d just click on links, but I want to make sure that my scripts can handle being messed with as well, so I first struggled to implement error handling and now I want to have the same result regardless of which scripting language catches the problem.
Still, I should be figuring out how to do that today, leaving me with just some content and design issues to deal with, such as whether or not to add a short description on the author pages or whether to even keep a separate “picture” script or simply display the selected image before the full list of thumbnails on the author page. But there’s certainly no rush, so I’ll probably be trying a few different options to see how they look and then decide which one to keep, though I’m also considering allowing the user to choose, which should be easy enough to do.

What this means for the blog is that I’ll once again need to write two non-personal posts next week, but at least it’s quite clear what one of them will be about, so I hope I’ll have it by Wednesday. The other will be more of an issue, as I don’t currently have a clear idea for it, but it may be something about “piracy” again, seeing as I’ll be going to the next protest against ACTA on Saturday. Then again, for the same reason, it may be about the fact that, whether we’re talking about terrorism or copyright infringement, we’re all now considered to be guilty until proven innocent.
But I’m not exactly known for managing to do what I set out to do, especially when I’m in such a mood, and the blog isn’t exactly a priority, so let’s see what happens. If I’ll manage to write those posts, great, but it won’t be that much of an issue if I won’t either. I still have two “slots” for personal posts and have been right at the limit in the past, after all, so it can be worse.