Peter J S

Easing Equations

At work I have been writing an Fx class in Javascript for a component that will be used on one of our clients websites. While writing the Fx class, we (work team) decided that easing effects would be needed to give it that nice feel too it. While researching easing, I came across a website that had Actionscript easing equations, and now looking at some of the Javascript frameworks out there, they have also used the equations. It seems that Robert Penner’s equations are extremely popular, and best of all, extremely easy to implement into Javascript.

Here is Robert Penner’s website…

http://www.robertpenner.com/easing/

I have implemented most of the easing equations into our Fx class, though we were mainly interested in the Back class, done some testing, and found they work extremely well.

So if you are thinking of writing your own Fx class, I highly suggest looking at Roberts equations, they seem to be the standard.

Tags: actionscript, easing, JavaScript, penner, robert

I Got It

Remember about a week ago I blogged about my new job, and that I was on a trial?

I am pleased to say that the trial is over, and they are keeping me on as a full time web developer. Can’t believe it really, 2 weeks ago I had no job, and now I have a job that I love doing. Best of all, it’s a regular income (not like freelance work) which pays really well.

I just want to say a BIG thanks to James (aka webworldx).

Thanks James, I owe you one

Subversion Books

I’ve never used subversion before, though I sort knew about it, what it is for etc. Today at work I got into a tiny bit of it. Once you understand how to use the terminal (like DOS on windows basically), just a matter of learning the commands for subversion, which I don’t really know just yet.

Does anyone have any excellent books or online eBooks / PDF’s about subversion for beginners that they may have used themself?

At work I am using subversion from Tigris…

http://subversion.tigris.org

Tags: subversion

Work

This week just gone, I started a new job as a full time PHP Developer at a web design company. I applied about 2 weeks ago, sent my CV, got an interview, and started Tuesday just gone. At the moment it’s a trial, as they need to see if I have the right skills for the job.

Sort of things I have been doing is pretty basic stuff, from formatting a CSV file and having it sent as an attachment via email, adding features and bug fixing on a few other sites. I really hope they give me a job which shows what skills I have.

Anyway, am really enjoying it.