JavaScript

I've got my old version of CompiledTemplate online in a Pastie. It's got the source and a simple example. I need to finish my new version and do some benchmarking.

It actually isn't often useful since it is usually better to generate content on the server side.

Robert Penner created a suite of mathematically genius actionscript functions to simulate real-life movements in Flash. The results are compelling.

A few years back, I ported Robert Penner's equations to JavaScript for use with Scriptaculous transitions. Here is a little playground I set up to test them out. They are available for download there as well. Here is Rober Penner's original demo and Easing Equations page.

We see swinging, bouncing, and elastic movements in real life, and even a lot on Flash and even TV due to the work of Rober Penner.

Thomas Fuchs uses my custom bouncePast transition on his site!

I ran into two great concepts today. First, there is a way to prevent circular references that choke IE's garbage collector. (View Article) I'll need to check into the concept more to see where I can use it. Hopefully it can be used in an event listener system. Thanks Kip!

Second, a great tool for testing gzip. I'd love to show it to folks at work to let them know how much bandwidth we can save if we use gzip.