Ideas

Parallax Backgrounds on Canvas Apps

Have you ever wanted to created the illusion that your application is moving? Well parallax images have been around on the web and in applications for a long time and I wanted to experiment with this in PowerApps. This blog post will show you how to use parallax backgrounds with a six layer sample. What […]

Continuous Scrolling Background with One Image on Canvas Apps

I’ve been learning PowerApps recently and I was inspired by @8bitclassroom and @ScottDurow with their awesome PowerApps games. I wanted to learn PowerApps by doing something similar, I decided to make a 2D scroller game. During this time I’ve been focussing on areas that can improve the look and feel of applications and in this […]

Track Your Amazon Expenditure With Microsoft Flow (Stage 1)

If you’re like me and you now shop online more than you do in stores, ordering at just a click of a button and tracking your overall expenditure is constantly becoming harder. You can of course view each order on your account, but you do not get an overall view of your spend. This blog […]

Stand Alone Flow Application – Post 2

This is the second post in a small series of making a stand-alone Microsoft Flow application following on from the first post. We’re going to jump straight in where we left off and now expand from simply returning some team information to getting the teams previous game, the score, their competitors name and send a […]

Stand Alone Flow Application – Post 1

So, we all know how awesome Power Apps is, however, Microsoft Flow is equally as awesome and can be used on its on for data applications. This blog post is the first of a small series and aims at creating a custom connector for the NHL™ (because I’m starting to become a big fan!) and […]

Using Puppeteer with Edge Chromium

The PowerPlatform has frequent updates, leaving users in a situation that testing needs to be able to be fast and reliable, running when deployments are updated. This is so that we can ensure nothing has broken on our customers systems and if there has been issues, we can know about them and resolve them as […]