The 3D Web Coder

FireRatingCloud REST API Batch Upload and Windows Client

Before getting technical, let me mention that I had a great time with Markus and Wolfgang on ski tours climbing a couple of mountains around the Gemmipass last weekend. Back to the technical stuff, I implemented a batch upload functionality for the FireRatingCloud C# .NET Revit API add-in REST API MongoDB client over a month ago, in Madrid, during the BIM Programming workshop, together with Jose Ignacio Montes of Avatar BIM. Jose noted that uploading the data for all doors in a large building model to the cloud database consumed a significant amount of time, whereas downloading the modified data for the same doors is almost instantaneous... 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 →

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 →