Posts Tagged: June 2019

June 2019 In Brief

Posted by admin on 2019-07-01 15:51:32 in Monthly Summaries (623 views)

Work started on the next major Printwiser Estimating 8.0 upgrade that had been in consideration for some time, featuring advanced quote writing options complete with branding images like logos and signatures, as well as two new report formats including a cost analysis spreadsheet. Labelwriter also got a couple of upgrades to speed up an essential report generation.

May 2019 In Brief

Posted by admin on 2019-06-01 22:35:48 in Monthly Summaries (604 views)

The Microsoftware Blog got its first upgrade this year, the main additions being a Search menu item for a live search facility, the “Similar Posts” section on post viewing pages, and post tag deletion. Research and review of web development technologies continued on VueJS for which a new Discovery Vue Journal thread was started at Nairaland as well as here; also HTTP call processing and the NuxtJS framework were looked into.

Deploying the Todo app to the web

Posted by Lemeechi on 2019-06-11 15:41:00 in Discovery Vue Journal (533 views)

To compare and contrast, I decided to upload both versions of the Todo List app to a web server, first the enhanced HTML version, and then the CLI version from the Traversy crash course, with mixed results.

Enhancing the plain HTML Todo app

Posted by Lemeechi on 2019-06-07 11:09:24 in Discovery Vue Journal (511 views)

The next assignment I set for myself was to enhance the Todo app, working with my plain HTML/JavaScript version: Implementing a Data Source dropdown, saving the value as a cookie, using an SQLite database, expanding the About page, etc. This has been accomplished between April 28 and today, May 5...

Customizing the build in Vue CLI GUI

Posted by Lemeechi on 2019-06-05 02:21:06 in Discovery Vue Journal (490 views)

The Configuration menu of the Vue CLI GUI lets you change the options used when building for production. The settings are saved in the vue.config.js file in the project directory, which you can also edit manually.

Converting the Todo Vue CLI app to plain HTML/JavaScript/CSS version

Posted by Lemeechi on 2019-06-02 21:16:40 in Discovery Vue Journal (579 views)

I next gave myself the task of converting the Vue CLI Todo List app from the Traversy course to a plain HTML/JavaScript version, to see how it would go. The CLI version had 1 .html file, 2 .js files, 7 .vue files or components distributed across different directories, plus two external modules uuid and axios. At the end of the successful exercise, the non-CLI version had just three files, for the HTML, JavaScript and CSS.