In my quest to better use javascript, I needed something to work on to hone my jQuery skills. I’m a sucker for animations. I think sometimes, if not over done, can be good tools for build great user interfaces. You can help navigate to what they need to click on. I this case, I want you to click on my blog posts. At the homepage, hopefully you will notice a rotating list on recent blog posts.

This does use the jQuery Timers plugin so don’t forget to include that in your HTML header. That is for the everyTime function. Also, notice the enqueue and dequeue functions. This is for making sure the animation run in the proper order. Try taking them out, and notice how everything will react.

If you don’t queue the two groups up, then the append happens at the same time of the rotation, which doesn’t really look that good. Try watching it in Firebug, its kinda cool watching the code loop around.

Pretty simple stuff. Needs a little refactoring. Early on in college modulo division is something I always thought I would never use. I was so wrong by my second year. Any time you want something to behave cyclical, modulo division is there to help. Doubly linked lists? check. Rotations, check. And I’m sure it has something to do with Π.