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What’s up guys?

We are back with another part of our Ionic 4 card matching game.

In the previous parts we broke down the basics of the Ionic framework, did the groundwork for our little game, added some images and coded the basic functions for matching cards on-screen.

Although we have a lot of functionality in the game already we’re lacking screens for when the player loses, wins and for loading.

That’s what we’ll be working on this time.

One more twist we’ll be adding is time. Let’s give the player something like sixty seconds to match all the cards otherwise he loses.

Coding Summary

To start off we have to add a bunch of variables to support the new screens we’re adding and to control time inside our game.

What’s going on guys?

I have a short encryption tutorial for you today, which is kind of a continuation from my recursive file encryption post a while back.

In that post we did encryption of multiple files recursively, while this time we’ll be doing in-memory AES encryption over the network.

This tutorial will be limited in scope in the sense that we’ll only send the data one way for now (from client to server); however, the plan is to incorporate it into my python control server series soon.

We’ll be using Python 3 for this tutorial (as one should by now). For the encryption side of things we’re using pyAesCrypt, which can be easily installed with pip by running the following command in a terminal:

python -m pip install pyaescrypt

In the video above, after going through the code and explanations, I also fire up wireshark and show the difference from both a plaintext server/client traffic to the encrypted data we’re implementing here.

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What’s going on guys?

We’re off to another series: Python Control Server.

Yes, there’s three series going on at once in the blog, so what! 😀

I like having multiple things going so that I don’t have to think much whenever I have some free time to code. I can just sit down and choose whichever series/project to work on at the moment.

Anyway, many people emailed me to post my old videos (from like 10 years ago) from this same series – written in Python 2.X.

However, with Python 2.X reaching end of life in January 2020, I figure: Why not just redo the whole thing in Python 3?

It’s also worth mentioning that some of the libraries I used back then have not been properly ported over to Python 3. Overall it just makes a lot of sense to redo the project using more current libraries.

Control Server

Why make a Python Control Server?

For many (ahem, very educational) reasons of course! Like for example, we are two days away from Christmas and many people enjoy taking vacations around this time. Well, why not setup a nice control server to have access to your systems while your away?

Sounds like a good idea time to me!

About Christmas though, I had my first batch of family visiting and let me tell you… its rather easy to get a cold when there’s a lot of people in the same household for hours at a time. So pardon my voice in the video.