The 3D Web Coder

Optimal API Documentation Workflow

I am still in London for our internal European ADN DevTech meeting, returning back to Switzerland at lunchtime today, with the next ski tour coming up tomorrow   :-)   Just before we arrived, I received an interesting and somewhat different question from Cyrille that I am happy to dive into, research and share with you – I need to reformat production release notes in a consistent way to our customers and am researching an optimal and future-proof documentation and communication workflow to generate and share API documentation for the View and Data API and other web services. Any suggestions? ... 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 →

Hackergarten, Chromium and Markdown

I visited the August meetup of the Basel Hackergarten last Tuesday, made a small contribution or two and learned several interesting new things: Hackergarten Angular web page achievements popup. Chromium browser. AsciiDoc and Markdown. Every Hackergarten meetup starts with a brainstorming session to determine a list of potential achievable work tasks. Participants then vote for the projects they would like to join. I ended up with the little group around ... Read more →

FireRatingCloud Heroku + Mongolab Deployed

Fully and completely deploying the FireRatingCloud support database on the cloud was much easier than expected. Please refer to the fireratingdb node.js web server and FireRatingCloud Revit add-in GitHub repositories for an overview of the exploration and project evolution. I already moved the database off-site to the mongolab host yesterday, but I still had the node web server running locally. To do so, I created a new Heroku app and linked it to the existing fireratingdb GitHub repo. I asked... Read more →

Populating MongoDB via C# .NET REST API

I discussed some manual testing of the REST API and the PUT, POST and Delete HTTP action implementations. I also promised some live testing from a C# .NET desktop app. In this case, it means adding documents to the fireratingdb node.js mongo web server via the REST API. We'll take a look at that today: Installing MongoDB on Windows Running MongoDB and the node.js web server on Windows Storing a document in mongo via REST API from C# .NET Generating... Read more →

Put, Post, Delete and Curl Testing a REST API

I continued the cloud-based FireRating project by equipping my node.js mongoose-driven mongoDB database web server with a REST API. Let's discuss and test the PUT, POST and DELETE implementation. For the sake of future-proofing, I also added a version prefix to the routing URLs: Add version prefix to routing URLs. Test REST API using browser and cURL. Put – update a record. Post – add a record. Delete – delete a record. Wrapping up for today. So far, we already... Read more →

The Responsive 3D Web Coder

Nowadays, web pages should be based on a responsive web design, or their Google search ranking will suffer. Today, I finally got around to converting my other blog, launching The Responsive Building Coder, followed by this. I was prompted by Kean Walmsley's explanation of growing usage of mobile devices, leading to his own recent responsive blog redesign. The new look is based on the Typepad Snap template. To complete the switch, I had to fix the banner image and translation... Read more →

Radical Node Server View and Heroku Push Cleanup

Two days ago, I implemented an enhancement to the node server REST API of my WebGL viewer and its interactive testing framework suggested by my colleague Cyrille Fauvel. He also suggested applying a whole host of other best practices to separate content, styles and logic. I am quite impressed that I succeeded in breaking so many rules implementing such a small project. I am very happy and find it extremely important to get them corrected early on. Many thanks to... Read more →

Node Server Rendering with either Swig or Handlebars

My previous step towards implementing a minimal WebGL viewer node server showed how to render 3D geometric POST data using Swig. Due to various self-created difficulties, I switched the rendering engine to Swig after struggling with initial attempts using Express Handlebars. Now that those difficulties have been solved, I thought I would show how to switch back to the handlebars support and prove that I use either one. They cannot be used in parallel, though, since the rendering engine is... Read more →