The 3D Web Coder

CompHound Instance View

I worked through parts of the nice comprehensive beginner’s guide to ReactJS. When I tried to implement selecting a database row to populate the react component from outside, I discovered that "You're never supposed to set a component's state outside of the component." That turned me off any further investigation and I took resort to jQuery instead, where I made much faster progress... Read more →

Lunar Eclipse, CORS Workaround, CompHound

This weekend, I wanted to add an additional field to the component occurrences in the CompHoundWeb database, which led me to discover and fix a trivial yet serious error in my C# client. Also, let me mention a CORS workaround pointed out by my colleague Cyrille Fauvel and my night out to watch the lunar eclipse: – Lunar eclipse – Fed up with CORS? – CompHound Updates... Read more →

Tutorials, Hackergarten, CompHound React.js

Yesterday I participated in the Hackergarten Basel and worked with Lukas @syzer Gintowt on integrating a Reactjs component into the CompHound node.js mongodb web server. Besides that, let me mention tutorialspoint... Read more →

CompHound Heroku Deployment, Urban Farming

Yesterday, I discussed the CompHound datatable implementation. Today, let's deploy to Heroku for you to try it out right away – Cloud9 – Easy github.io domain rerouting – CompHound deployment to Heroku – Heroku requires HTTPS – Recent CompHound commits – Try it out live – CompHound road map – Self-sufficient urban farming on 1/10 of an acre... Read more →

The CompHound Mongoose DataTable

I continued working on the CompHound component tracker project. To-do: – Implement a datatable view – Post the server live to Heroku – Add a View and Data API viewing component – Reroute the comphound.net domain... The solution was easy – Hooking up the mongoose-datatable – Implementing a row clicked event handler... Read more →

Towards a CompHound Mongo Database Table View

We are already more than halfway through the Cloud Accelerator in Prague. – Steps towards the CompHound Mongo database table view – Express, ES6, React and more crash courses and best practices – A real scalable server side mongo database table view – CompHound road map... Read more →

C# DoorData and Node.js DoorService Classes

I continued improving my REST API node.js web server, mongo database and C# REST API client, and also set up a Google domain rerouting – CompHound domain, organisation web site and rerouting – Implementing a DoorData container class – Updating Get to return a list of deserialised DoorData instances – Passing a DoorData instance to the Put method – Implementing a REST API router DoorService class... Read more →

Mongodb Upsert

Last week, I searched for and struggled to implement an upsert call for my CompHound and FireRating samples, i.e. a REST PUT call that does both PUT to update the data of an existing record as well as POST to create a new record, if none exists. I ended up calling the mongoose findOne function and then selecting either update or create based on whether an existing record is found. Luckily, a much easier solution exists, adding an argument specifying the options {upsert:true} to the update call... Read more →

Using RestSharp for Rest API GET

I arrived safe and sound in Prague for the Autodesk cloud accelerator. During the trip, I continued to convert my C# REST API client from HttpWebRequest to RestSharp. I implemented the RestSharp PUT call last week; now, let's address the GET call, and remove all traces of the use of HttpWebRequest. The REST GET call implementation... Read more →

CompHound, RestSharp, Mongo PUT and POST

I spent a few exciting and satisfying hours last night cleaning up my C# REST API client to use RestSharp instead of HttpWebRequest and the node.js mongo web server to enable PUT to create as well as update a record – Use percent for CSS font-size font sizing – The CompHound component tracker – GET, PUT and POST stupidity creating versus updating a record – Enabling PUT to create as well as update – Using RestSharp instead of HttpWebRequest – No need to format data as JSON... Read more →

Comphound, JsFiddle and My First React Widget

Comphound, JsFiddle and My First React Component – prepare for conferences, RTC Europe in Budapest and Autodesk University in Las Vegas – implement a cloud-based universal component and asset usage analysis, visualisation and reporting, christened Comphound, for hounding out and tracking down those pesky components – looking at the React JavaScript library – implemented my first JsFiddle – taking a new look at the Autodesk View and Data API – prepare for the cloud accelerator in Prague... Read more →

The IoT and SeeControl

Autodesk announced its intention to acquire SeeControl, a San Francisco-based developer of an enterprise Internet of Things or IoT cloud service platform. Every day we hear an IoT story about a new factory, product, building or highway enabled with sensors to give it smarts. There will be several billion connected devices within the next few years. The growth of this technology may fundamentally change how consumers interact with their physical environment in much the same way that tablets and smart phones have. As Autodesk is moving from a product to a service company, customers are interested in moving from the delivery and installation of machines, factories and buildings to optimizing their performance and availability... Read more →

Live Web Site Render Markdown via Showdown

Theo Armour uses Showdown to convert Markdown to HTML in all his JavaScript apps. Each page generates its own HTML from the embedded MD and there is no need more for any external intermediate conversion steps. Theo later demonstrated a method to implement an entire web site written in markdown and updated live through GitHub pages. Read more →