Posts

Building a Sliding Picture Puzzle in Microsoft Power Apps

Image
Companion YouTube Videos This article supports two YouTube videos that walk through the game. If you are new to Power Apps, you may want to watch them first to get a feel for the gameplay and the app's behaviour: SlidingP – Installation and Setup How to Build a Sliding Picture Puzzle in Microsoft Power Apps Introduction This article walks through the design and implementation of a 3x3 sliding picture puzzle game built in Microsoft Power Apps. If you have ever played one of those classic tile-sliding puzzles, where you rearrange scrambled squares to reform a complete image, that is exactly what we are building, but inside a low-code platform. The game includes: A timer that tracks how long it takes to solve the puzzle. A swap counter that records the number of moves. A background animation that plays beneath the tile area, with an optional More Information link that opens a related web page. It cycles through red, green, and blue every second. A confetti wi...
Post a Comment
Read more

Setting up NUT UPS Software on Linux (a journey of discovery)

Image
Preamble I've written about this UPS software numerous times. The coverage was normally a stage in a larger guide. I was asked by a friend to help him setup NUT (Network UPS Tools) on his Linux box and decided to feed my notes into an AI, prompting it to update them and make improvements. NUT is an open-source solution distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) . It is manufacture neutral and is heading towards its 30th anniversary. Another important observations is that it is able to support a wide array of devices spanning the evolution of the technology over the years. To this one needs to add the fact that there is no standards body to ensure that every brand follows a fixed API that had evolved with oversight over time. The relevance of this information to the narrative is that the persons who support this project are volunteers who dedicate their own time to maintaining the project and do not have access to every UPS ever produced. This means that if the UPS y...
Post a Comment
Read more