Projects

My Projects

Uisge

Why Uisge

As a lover, and light dabbler of Scotch I decided that it was about time there was a proper place to discuss this online

What else is coming?

Uisge is a bit of a passion project and I plan on working on it a lot over time. My next steps are to add commenting, friendships, and likes. More than that will be added over time.

About Uisge

Uisge, inspired by Untappd, is a social media application that allows users to publicly share their experiences, ratings, and thoughts about Scotch-whiskey known in Scottish Gaelic as uisge-beatha translating to Water of life.

What's special?

Uisge is a single-page app using a Rails RESTful implement for a more efficient CRUD interaction for users.
Using polymorphic associations and custom Rails queries I was able to decrease N + 1 queries to my database.
I used image Storage on Cloud computing service AWS S3 to reduce server loads and increase app scalability.
Using React and Redux allowed me to make an app that seamlessly transitions leading to a great UI
I incorporated AJAX to get the Rails JSON API to feed data to my frontend and allow for a seamless and high performing UI
There will be plenty more to come

Particle

Why Particle?

While I am most certainly a layman when it comes to astrophysics, I am ever the enthusiast. When thinking of making a game the first thing that came to mind is the first thing there ever was. I like to work from things that inspire me, and what could possibly be more inspiring than the very beginning of everything we know

Whats Next?

Implementing high score using firebase.

About Particle

Particle is a game where you as a particle try not to collide with the millions of other partciles realeased by the big bang.

Whats special?

Particle is a 2d game using Canvas.js to render
Using collision controll I was able to watch the position of over 200 different items and cehck for collisions with the player
Implementing a queue allowed me to draw a movemnet trail of different sizes depending on the scenario
The queue pushes either 20 or 300 previous positions and limiting it to the same number. adding new locations and purging old ones

DOMo

Why DOMo

I would be lying if I said that the name was not part of why I decided to make it. Getting into deeper coding and meta programming is always a facinating journey, I always learn a great amout when delving deep.

Whats Next

This is only the very basic of DOM manipulation. over time I would like to add a lot more, How it develops over time will be interesting to see

About DOMo

DOMo is a DOM manipulation library I wrote loosly based on jQuery

What's Special

Created lightweight DOM manipulation library encompassing core functions necesary to manipulate the DOM
Incorporated AJAX calls to get backend server information and event handling with native DOM API