GDD Projects

Interactive and collaborative stories. I have recently started working on an idea I have been mulling over for a few years. The project is an app that will allow users to write and experience interactive stories collaboratively. Stories will be able to support textual and graphic formats. Authors will be able to select points in the story where the reader can make a choice about how the story will unfold. Authors will also be able to open up these forks to collaborators who can add their own branches to the story. I am currently working on the API in what spare time I can manage. https://github.com/wesdean/story-book-api I have decided to use Go for the API. I considered a Node/Express API, but I so much like using Go. I am however fond of Knex for managing database migrations. There are also some good Javascript deployment tools available. I may end up using Go for the actual API and Javascript for code management. I settled in on Postgres for the database. I have used MySQL ...

My first time with Ember.js on a production app. I have worked with Ember.js several years ago on a demo project just to check out the framework. I have frequently chosen other frameworks over Ember but not because I thought Ember was lacking. Years ago I started working with Angular over Ember because Angular integrated two-way data binding faster that Ember did. When I was selecting a framework, two-way data binding was a deal breaker so I chose Angular. Ember soon improved their data-binding, but I had already learned Angular and Ember still had a steep learning curve. Once mastered, Ember seems to be an excellent framework, but I'm not there yet. I'm still learning how Ember works and the patterns it favors. I am hoping to be on this project long enough to gain a very solid knowledge of Ember. I have enjoyed working on the project so far. It's a really neat product. It is a spatial location app designed to aid municipalities in governance. It has some pretty coo...