Les Sharma

Les Sharma Sample Download Featuring Stock-Aitken-Waterman PWL

Les — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:44:30 +0000

Right Guys! Here It Is, Les Sharma’s Personal Sample Collection!!!
A download of all my best drums and percussion sounds. Including my personal created collection of HOT PWL / Stock-Aitken-Waterman punchy Kicks, Snares, Claps, Hi-Hats used on many, many HIT records.
I have included a hot Juno and DX100 bass sound used on many PWL / SAW hit records.

I worked at Pete Waterman Ltd (PWL) for 10 years as a sound / mix engineer. PWL was the home of Stock – Aitken – Waterman, and this is my personal collection of HOT SAW kicks, snares, claps, hats and loads more used by them (SAW) and people like Phil Harding, Pete Hammond, Dave Ford and Ian Curnow, M&S, Big Time Charlie, Ministry of Sound, and load more…

IN TOTAL IT’S ABOUT 600 VERY HOT HIT MAKING DRUM SAMPLES. ALL IN WAV. FILE FORMAT.

I WAS ALSO ONE HALF OF BIG TIME CHARLIE ‘ON THE RUN’ AND ‘MR DEVIL’ 2 TOP 40 HIT RECORDS AND MASSIVE CLUB TUNES. THE SAMPLE CD WILL INCLUDE ALL MY NEW DANCE DRUM SOUNDS USED ON ALL MY LATEST PRODUCTIONS.

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE AND DOWNLOAD NOW!

How To Create A ‘Contact Us’ Web Form with CAPTCHA

Les — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:35:10 +0000

Before you start you will need Linux web hosting (not Windows), you will also need GD Library and PHP installed on your web server. Most good hosting companies will have these installed already.

1. Create a blank .php page, call it something like contact-us.php and copy all the code below into your .php page.

2. The PHP ‘contact us’ page should look like this when online. Contact Us Form
You can edit the look of this page later to match the look of your site.

3. You only need to edit two sections of the code below (they are in BOLD). First is your email address, this is were you want the ‘contact us’ form data to be emailed to.
Second is the ‘landing page’ after the form is filled in, nomally a ‘thank-you’ web page.

4. Download this compressed folder, un-zip it and upload all files / folder to the root of your site. Download This

session_start();
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
// clean and check form inputs including the secure image code
$name = trim(strip_tags($_POST['name']));
$email = trim(strip_tags($_POST['email']));
$comments = trim(strip_tags($_POST['comments']));
$secure = strtoupper(trim(strip_tags($_POST['secure'])));
$match = $_SESSION['captcha']; // the code on the image

// input error checking
if ($name==”") {
$err.= “Please provide your name
”;
}
if (!$email) {
$err.= “Please provide your email address
”;
}
if ($email) {
if (!eregi(“^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$”, $email)) {
$err.= $email. ” is not a valid email address.
”;
}
}
if ($comments==”") {
$err.= “Please provide comments
”;
}
if (!$secure) {
$err.= “No security code entered
”;
}
if (($secure!=$match) && ($secure!=”")) {
$err.= “Security code mismatch
”;
}
if ($err==”") {
// success – input passed all tests
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$enquiry=$_POST['comments'];
$to=”YOUREMAILADDRESS@YOURDOMAIN.COM“;
$message=”$name just filled in your ‘Contact Us Form’. Their comments were \n$comments and their e-mail address is: $email”;
if(mail($to,”Contact Us Form”,$message,”From: $email\n”)) {
} print ‘YOURDOMAIN.COM/THANK-YOU.HTML“>’; {
}
exit();
}
}
?>

if ($err!=”") {
echo “Form Error(s)
”;
echo “”. nl2br($err). “
”;
}
?>

Car Hire Rip Off – Alicante Airport

Les — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:57:23 +0000

Do you feel that some car hire companies are ripping you off? I do!
I spent a few hours on-line yesterday trying to hire a car for an Easter trip to Alicante, Spain.
Even though you can find cheap car hire online, a small family car can be hired for about 120 Euros a week…it’s the extras that really gets to me.
I have three young boys (one age 7 and two age 6), most hire car firms charge extra for baby seats and booster seats, around 4 Euros a day. So one week for one booster seat is 28 Euros and for three booster seats it’s 84 Euros. Nearly as much as the car hire itself! Don’t forget these booster seat cost around £5 from some supermarkets to buy.

The ways round this? Take your own booster seat from home, but who wants to do that? Three children, suitcases, hand luggage and three booster seats is a bit too much.
Second option, find a car hire company that offers FREE baby seats and children booster seats. The first company I found for the Alicante Spain area was Javea Car Hire, but sadly they had no cars available.
The second car hire company was Lara Cars, I telephoned them in Spain, the lady spoke very good English and was very helpful. Lara Cars offered great pricing on car hire and FREE BOOSTER SEATS. So I booked with them.

Another rip off is most car hire firms charge for fuel on top of the hire charge. This is around 70 Euros for a full tank of petrol. How this works is that you pay for a full tank of fuel and bring the car back empty. But most people won’t use a full tank of fuel in a week, I never do and normally take the car back with still half a tank full (too the car companies gain). Lara Cars will let you pay for only half a tank of fuel.

Other things to watch out for, some car hire companies will charge your credit/debit card for an extra 500 euros as deposit for damages to the car unless you take out their extra insurance cover at 3 euros a day. So because most people don’t want to leave a large 500 euros deposit they are blackmailed into taking out extra insurance cover they don’t need – another con!

Another big bonus with booking a car from a smaller firm that don’t have an office in the airport terminal is that you don’t have to queue for half an hour to sort out your booking. These smaller firms will meet you at the airport, you can also pay with cash or credit card which is handy and the representative will take you to the car. A bit more personal.
How this works, book with big car hire company, arrive at airport, find their office, get in long queue and wait ages to get your car in the Spanish heat!
Book with smaller family run firm and they will meet you after your flight lands, normally the car hire representative will have a sign with your name on it, you pay them and do the paper work for insurance and they take you to the car, you drop the car off in the airport car park after – very easy!

Evan big pool group today (first day), Rio top group small pool.

Les — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:17:33 +0000

Going To The Spring Trade Fair NEC Birmingham

Les — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:47:23 +0000

I’m sitting on a Virgin high speed train from London Euston to Birmingham international for the Spring Fair 2011.
I set off from Dover Kent this morning at 8.30am. Took the new high speed train to London, then a short tube ride to Euston.
It’s been a few years since I went to the NEC trade shows but we are looking for some new products for our main baby gift site www.abcbabygifts.co.uk

Lego NinJago

Les — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:31:43 +0000

Lego Astronaut By Evan

Les — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:59:02 +0000

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Dover Life Guard Club Swimming Gala Thursday 18th Nov 2010

Les — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:59:02 +0000

Bryn and Evan both won a gold medal at Dover life guard club swimming gala on Thursday evening.
Bryn was the youngest swimmer at 5. He wasn’t far behind the 9 year olds.

Dover Life Guard Club Swimming Gala Thursday 18th Nov 2010

Les — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:41:09 +0000

My little man Evan removes his first image background for one of our Snuggle Feet baby shoes using Fireworks.

Actinic Release V10 Beta Yesterday

Les — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:06:46 +0000

Received an email from Actinic yesterday announcing that version v10 is available for downloading.

Actinic v10 Highlights

* Real time stock control providing improved stock management for you and up-to-date visibility of stock levels for your shoppers.
* A Streamlined Checkout improves the shopper experience by reducing the original checkout process to 4-steps.
* ‘Recently viewed products’ a new marketing feature which displays a list of products to the shopper they have previously viewed on the website.
* Customer Feedback integration (Feefo) enabling the presentation of independent customer feedback on your site.

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