I would like to first start off that last week’s problem of not having the automatic redirection working in Firefox was actually my own mistake without even realizing it. Basically, the CORS protocol should only take place for cross site requests, for example if a client application that is being Read more…
Well, this week would not be a very vuetiful chapter, as I’m starting to work on the programming of firmware into the board. Just to recap, the procedure of downloading the firmware into the board is done through a sequence of HTTP requests, mainly revolving around DELETE, PUT requests and Read more…
Welcome back to all things vuetiful! This week I worked on the registration of the boards. So here’s how it works. As the user powers up the board and connects it to his or her PC through USB, the board would act as a HID-Keyboard that automatically types out an Read more…
Here we go again. In the previous chapters, I have mostly done the management of multiple cloud storage services in the application. For this chapter, I worked on setting up the layout and the displaying of projects on the dashboard interface. You have already seen a small portion of it Read more…
Hello again. Welcome to the second chapter of my series of developing the frontend of my current project using Vue.js and Vuetify mainly. This week, I continued working on the storage aspect of the dashboard application. I had already made an interface for storage configuration, now I would just need Read more…
From here on, I would be writing a series of blogs conveying my trials and experiences developing for the frontend of my current project using Vue.js. The title of my blog posts after this one would follow a similar pattern to the one above, partly because I’m running out of Read more…
This week we have decided to some changes to the application I’m currently working on for the better. Normally, server web applications would have a dedicated database to read, write and store crucial data. That was the case for this application as well, until Dr Shawn got the idea that Read more…
In any IT-based companies, your roles are often well-defined. If you are a back end developer, then you would handle the back end stuff like database management, REST API design, storage and such. If you are a front end developer, then you would handle the front end stuff like user Read more…
This time I’m working on the transmission of the firmware into the board. The protocol for doing so has already been established, but there are some issues. The whole procedure for this require some form of authentication for security purposes. This is done through a HMAC-based One-time Password (HOTP), therefore Read more…
It is time to move onto the next phase of the project. An important part of the project is the registering of the boards with the application. Basically, a JSON payload would be sent to the server, which contains crucial details such as its serial number, model name, RSA public key, MAC address and more. It is encrypted using the RSA public key of the server. The payload would reach a specific REST API endpoint, that merely does the job of decrypting the payload using the server’s RSA private key, parsing and extracting the data, then subsequently save it to the database.
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