Being a community champion is not an easy thing! You need to go out there help other when they are in need. And it’s definitely not something you brag about. Though, this is the least of our worries as bandits. In fact it’s all about bragging when it comes to bandits.
Since we first set foot on board, th’ atmosphere at Pirates o’ th’ CaribIN be nothin’ short of grand. We arrived on Thursday mornin’ and got everything set up, and since then we’ve been havin’ a blast! We’ve printed everything from pirate ships to gold doubloons, and we’ve lent a hand to our neighbors and gotten help in return. Here be two snaps that show off our mighty fine team spirit. First day, and mornin’ of th’ third day. We were up late last night makin’ improvements to our PoS system, ye scallywags!
Claiming Glossy Pictures:
We asked AI to create a pirate color theme:
Here is a color palette that would work well for a pirate-themed app:
These colors work well together to create a cohesive and visually appealing palette that captures the essence of the pirate theme.
Based on the colors we drew a logo free hand using Microsoft Whiteboard and added the colors from the color profile.
The logo should appear everywhere to create cohesive branding.
We updated the brand guide based in feedback from our pirates and this is what the new logo looks like:
All good brands with some selfrespect has special fonts that is designed to give the user crafted associations. Never underestimate the effect of a good font.
We use two fonts in our designs.
Headers and body text we use Lato Hairline in Canvas Apps and Lato Thin wherever this font is too thin.
Lato on Google Fonts:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lato
For decorative contrast we use the font “Dancing Script”.
Dancing Scripts on Google Fonts:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Dancing+Script
OF course we also checked that having that dark grey background with white text is accessible, and it is.
We used these graphics in our app that capture new pirates into our system:
Tap the chest to reveal your new pirate self.
Let’s face it first rather than later, we do work with Microsoft technology, and what is better than combine a lot of them together in the same solution? Look at the screenshots under, with the text to every picture, and we’re sure you also think this is a stairway to heaven!
To keep up the energy and team-feeling throughout the day, we really need to make an efford together. No one should feel left behind and everyone is included. For us, we have done this by dressing the same way, make sure everyone always have something to drink (either with or without the fun in it). And, we have played music all night to make most of stay up late to work with the solution and to give all the other team-members still here at 3am to have as much fun as they can! 🙂
Our main solution is an app for the Pirates to use on their phone when they are out on their raids. So, it might not be a shock that we will claim the bagde for an App. But, of course it needs to be shiny and glossy as well. We are here to create the besgt user experience for the Pirate as we ca, and even if pirates come out as rough and hard-core, they still want their tools to be as easy and up-to-date as they can 🙂
We can’t know iff the pirates will use their phone or tablet to use the Pirate App, so we have created the solution for both!
Arrr mateys! The captain of the EvidiPirateBay showed us great kindness by supplying us with the batteries for our LEGO EV3 Ship’s cat. Though some of our crew had to walk the plank and continue their duties from a distant land, we raise a glass to the EvidiPirateBay for their hearty generosity.
Pirates love talking trash, and where better to spew out all the fun than Microsoft Teams?
As a pirate you don’t have too many tools at hand at any given time. The same is true in 2023. Why learn something new when you have your trusty old swiss army knife at hand?
This time around we’re stealing from our own team mate, Mikael, taking one of the most powerful and mis-used plugins of all time, the PnP Script Editor Web Part, and we use it to easily embed our “Pirate “Capture a pirate” canvas app into Teams.
It’s as easy as rum and grog, add the Teams Tab, configure it with and <iframe> tag and you’re all set. Because everyone knows iframes as it has been a trusted valid tag for over 20 years now. Who knew you could embed and use a PowerApp within Teams????
Once set up – it works beautifully!
The beauty is that it even works on mobile! Pick the tab and embrace.
And for some extra fun, here’s PirateGTP pirate in SVG – well hidden 😁
Badges and why – because why not
Client side salsa – Everyone knows teams tabs are browser tabs, and iframe’s are all about browser love. No monolithic front-end used, only simple and easy html and scripting.
Thieving bastards – We stole and borrowed the open source PnP script editor web part solution, even though inception was involved. PirateGPT is our API on crew mate generation, and Stable diffusion (via automatic1111) is our image pirateer solution. And not free I tell you as we had to purchase a used Nvidia RTX3060 gfx card to get this going.
Chameleon – What can we say, Teams, stand-alone, browser, native app, what not – you will not get away from being onboarded with out solution. It adapts portrait, landscape, even black and white. PirateGPT will get you!
Plug’nPlay – We stole it with inception, it plugs into anything SPFx plugs into. Showcased in Teams as we just love the purple.
Power User Love – All stored in Dynamic, all surfaced in Teams and SharePoint – we love ya’ll!
The Capitan has his own Native app with a useful set of tools to manage the crew and the boat. The App is made in React Native and prepared for mobile phones and tablets.
Features:
A captain needs to monitor the weather before departure because it can greatly impact the safety and success of a voyage. Dangerous weather conditions such as strong winds, high waves, storms, fog, and ice can affect navigation, visibility, stability, and increase the risk of damage to the ship and crew. By monitoring the weather, the captain can plan a safer and more efficient voyage.
A pirate captain would need to count their crew before departure for safety, morale, planning, and order. It helps ensure everyone is accounted for, tasks can be properly allocated, and order is maintained among the crew.
more to come.
The code can be found at: https://github.com/TheBastards-ACDC2023/Bastards-NativeApp