George White stonehippo

Getting my Raspberry Pi set up

Getting on the network

Before the rest of this gist is useful, you've got to get your Raspberry Pi on the network. I followed the information from the Adafruint Learning System Raspberry Pi tutorials, which can be found at http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-3-network-setup.

Couple of additional network setup notes

The two files that are most important are

Setting up a Raspberry Pi as a dashboard server with Dashing

Why the heck did I do this?

I wanted to set up one of my Raspberry Pi's as a data dashboard, pushing sensor data to a web interface that's easy to digest. I decided to use Shopify's Dashing framework. Dashing is based on Sinatra, and is pretty lightweight.

Dashing does require Ruby 1.9.3 to run. In addition, it makes use of the execjs gem, which needs to have a working Javascript interpreter available. Originally, I tried to get therubyracer working, but decided to switch over to Node.js when I ran into roadblocks compiling V8.

One warning: The RPi is a very slow system compared with modern multi-core x86-style systems. It's pretty robust, but compiling all this complex software taxes the system quite a bit. Expect that it's going to take at least half a day to get everything going.

Mobile Monitoring and Analytics Providers

Performance and App Monitoring

#Cloud Hosting Providers

This is a more-or-less random list of cloud services for web and VPS server hosting. It's not meant to be complete; it's just some services that I'm interested in.

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