The 3D Web Coder

Roomedit CouchDB Database Definition

You may be aware of the roomedit CouchDB app that I implemented for my 2D real-time round-trip cloud-based RoomEditorApp. Originally implemented in 2013, I migrated it to Revit 2016 for my class on connecting desktop and cloud at the Revit Technology Conference RTC Europe, and created a recording of it preparing to set up the AEC booth for Autodesk University. We were unable to find an easy way to upload the roomedit database definition files to CouchDB... Read more →

Autodesk Uni Cloud and Mobile Expert Panel

Here are the notes I took at the Autodesk University 2015 panel discussion SD9731 – Autodesk Cloud and Mobile API and Technologies: Meet the Experts, led by Cyrille Fauvel, Senior Manager, ADN M&E, Autodesk Inc. – Learning Objectives – Description – Your AU Expert – Overview – Panellists – Questions and Answers... Read more →

RTC Report LMV Model Upload and Translation

I presented the CompHound component tracker project as work in progress at the Revit Technology Conference RTC Europe in Budapest last week – RTC Conference and Connecting Desktop and Cloud – Driving the View and Data API Upload and Translation from a C# Add-In – Current CompHound Versions and To Do – Meanwhile, autumn is well advanced here in Switzerland... Read more →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Web Fest, Hackathons, AU and WebGL Workshops

It is high time for me to get back here to explore new web related areas after the excursions looking at the journey to the cloud for a desktop oriented development team and the recent Dubai hackathon. I've been overly busy with the The Building Coder, the Revit API community and the new release of Revit since then. Here are my topics for today, both backward-looking to an exciting event held last week and forward-looking regarding my own plans for... Read more →