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 →

WebGL 101 – Getting Started

In our progression towards a full-fledged model design app, we completed the following steps so far: Retrieving and Processing Query Strings in JavaScript and a Node.js Server Hosting a Node Server on Heroku A Program Generator Node.js Web Server Displaying 2D Graphics via a Node Server Driving the SVG Node Server from a Desktop Application After the quick and efficient little excursion into 2D graphics using SVG, let's head straight on towards 3D... WebGL Nowadays, the simplest and most ubiquitous... Read more →