Programming Languages

Creating a Todo app with Electron using SQLite as the database. Have taken several courses on Electron from Udemey and done the walk-through tutorial that the Electron site has. The tutorial did a nice job of not only being easy to follow but also worked and was able to create a desktop app for Windows 11 that would open to a Hello page. Then decided to do a simple Todo app as it is something that so many people include in their training portfolio as it does have something that uses CRUD and displays data....

Livecode Server is the engine that uses Livecode Script in a Full Stack web application. The server engine works just like PHP where you can place tags in a web page in line with HTML. The server exectues the tags and outputs the results. Livecode’s high-level language is easier to get the job done than many lower level languages such as PHP, Python, C++, PERL, etc. Livecode built solution is easier to write and generally takes less code than these languages....

Using App on Digital Ocean is a newer service that they have started where it is possible to build, deploy, manage, and scale apps. Digital Ocean handles the infastructure, app runtimes, so that code can be pushed to production in just a few clicks. It has support for Node.js. Python, Go, PHP, Ruby, Static sites, and Docker. Below is the cost structure for using Digital Ocean’s App platform. As you can see it does seem to be a fairly reasonable cost structure and ceratinly being able to get started for free is something....

Livecode is both a language and a framework and delivers executable native apps with the Livecode Virtual Machine embedded. Livecode can produce apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, and Android. Plus it has a terrific IDE that runs on Windows, Mac, or Linux. And instead of syntax that uses parenthesis, brackets, or semi-colons, it codes in English. Consider the traditional software development cycle. You’re probably familiar with it, it goes something like this: Edit, compile, run, navigate, debug, repeat....