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Dashing - A dashboard framework

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Re: Dashing - A dashboard framework

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Post by frankdenbow »

pushmatrix wrote: post #20

Hey everyone! Dashing creator here. Thanks for the frontpage :) I have good news for you all. Dashing will be evolving soon to support multiple backends. Already there are ports being written for python, perl, .net, and also better rails integration. Stay tuned! P.S: Sorry for the downtime. Was not expecting frontpage. While I work on getting it stable, enjoy this screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/321Y2V361X1r

Looks good. I have used geckoboard in the past but would like to customize my own internal dashboard to use this. Kudos for using Sinatra!

Re: Dashing - A dashboard framework

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Post by jalada »

Coincidentally just started using this today. I've got a couple of widgets/jobs I'm hoping to share for re-use. Some on the wiki are out of date e.g. the Twitter ones that don't support Oauth will stop working soon.

Re: Dashing - A dashboard framework

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Post by davefp »

jalada wrote: post #62

Coincidentally just started using this today. I've got a couple of widgets/jobs I'm hoping to share for re-use. Some on the wiki are out of date e.g. the Twitter ones that don't support Oauth will stop working soon.

Please do! If you want to add widgets with functionality similar to existing ones, please add details of the difference s to the description (e.g. 'Uses OAuth' for Twitter').

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Post by davefp »

barranger wrote: post #41

While I'm sure it looks fantastic on a dedicated monitor/tv, it's lack of a responsive layout limits it's use in my books Looking at something like http://dash.social-biblio.ca/torontolibrary on a sub 1080p monitor is less than optimal.

We experimented with making the default layout responsive, but ultimately decided against it.

The thinking was that displaying exactly the same data on a TV, desktop, and mobile device isn't ideal. The dashboard is designed specifically for the display. If a mobile version is needed, then the relevant widgets can easily be put into a new, mobile-optimized dashboard.

The same could be achieved with carefully designed media queries, but I feel that separate dashboards do the job better.

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Post by samirahmed »

pushmatrix wrote: post #20

Hey everyone! Dashing creator here. Thanks for the frontpage :) I have good news for you all. Dashing will be evolving soon to support multiple backends. Already there are ports being written for python, perl, .net, and also better rails integration. Stay tuned! P.S: Sorry for the downtime. Was not expecting frontpage. While I work on getting it stable, enjoy this screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/321Y2V361X1r

It would be nice to have a github org for dashing and all its ports. That could take some of the burden of all the ports off of you.

I know its part of shopify organization now, but there is a lot of interest I know I would love to contribute to other backends as well

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Post by davefp »

biznickman wrote: post #56

Where's documentation of how to use the graph widget?

The graph widget is based on Rickshaw (http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/).

The current implementation requires you to send an array of hashes with the x and y co-ordinates you want to plot.

Here's the example job where you can see it in action: https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/blob/master/templates/pro...

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Post by sync »

ollysb wrote: post #26
pushmatrix wrote: post #20

Hey everyone! Dashing creator here. Thanks for the frontpage :) I have good news for you all. Dashing will be evolving soon to support multiple backends. Already there are ports being written for python, perl, .net, and also better rails integration. Stay tuned! P.S: Sorry for the downtime. Was not expecting frontpage. While I work on getting it stable, enjoy this screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/321Y2V361X1r

It looks really good. We're just about to start building a dashboard so this could be really useful. We're using emberjs though, is it possible to use just the views and the layout code? I'm thinking along the lines of a dashboard bootstrap.

I think you want gridster then: http://gridster.net/

Re: Dashing - A dashboard framework

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Post by watty »

szalansky wrote: post #59
richoffrails wrote: post #57

I don't get it. Why is something at the UI level coupled to a server-side framework?

Me neither and this is somehow scary. I'd prefer just an UI kit with guidelines for integration with backend.

Check out Gridster.js then - http://gridsterjs.net

Re: Dashing - A dashboard framework

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Post by ollysb »

sync wrote: post #67
ollysb wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks really good. We're just about to start building a dashboard so this could be really useful. We're using emberjs though, is it possible to use just the views and the layout code? I'm thinking along the lines of a dashboard bootstrap.

I think you want gridster then: http://gridster.net/

Thanks, that looks perfect!
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