Dear readers, wherever you are in the world: 2025 is almost over! So, let’s take a step back and reflect on all the articles that we published this year. So many topics and so many new ideas. This has been the best year for Peakboard (at least so far)! Hub...
The year is almost over, and it’s time to take a step back and reflect. In 2024, more than 50 articles were published on this beautiful blog site—most of them inspired by readers who continue to ask questions and suggest new topics. I want to express my heartfelt thanks for...
Climate change and global warming are real, and anyone who digs into the numbers and facts is often shocked by how clear and obvious it is. We will discuss this in today’s article. We will also learn a nice approach for processing JSON data that seems almost unmanageable at first....
JSON is the most popular data format for modern web and cloud environments. Peakboard applications often use JSON. For example, when calling an API and processing the response. A good way to extract the desired data from a JSON string is to use a JPath expression, rather than using basic...
Loading a CSV file with Peakboard is straightforward—no need to write an article about that. But what about when you don’t know exactly which files to load, or if the data you’re looking for is spread out across multiple files? This is exactly the problem we will be solving today....
Besides Google Analytics, Matomo is the gold standard when it comes to tracking and analyzing visitor behavior on a website. This article provides a short introduction to the Matomo Reporting API. This API provides access to the analytics data through different layers of aggregation. The best way to access these...
In this article, we learned how to store historical events in a SQL Server database. Every time a state changes, a new row is created with the timestamp and the name of the new state. As you can see in the sample data, there are two drilling machines switching between...
We saw in another article how we can collect, store, and monitor the state of an artefact (machine, person, etc.) with a SQL Server database. But of course, the goal is to give the end user clear and useful information about that state. So, this article explains a very simple,...
Please note, that the content of this article might not be aligned with the latest version of Pakboard designer or runtime but applies to an older version Displaying numbers in the correct format is one of the fundamental tasks of building a board. The basic features of number formatting in...
There are countless services on the internet that provide weather information, either as a widget or as an API. In this article, we will learn how to use weatherapi.com. They offer a free plan to get basic weather information from any location in the world. If you want to follow...