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Dashing - A dashboard framework

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Re: Dashing - A dashboard framework

#71

Exceptionally handsome if you like Windows 8 perhaps. I don't like the big rectangles with bright colors. A good dashboard should be almost invisible until something important happens.

Well it's always good to jump on the latest trend, you know. Many apps, including Chrome, are adopting this design style.

Re: Dashing - A dashboard framework

#72

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

They won't be maintained by Shopify. Only the frontend & ruby backend will be under Shopify.

Re: Dashing - A dashboard framework

#73

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

I'm going to use this literally the moment you release rails support. Hell, let me beta test it!

We have a platform that really needs this, so I'm looking forward to using it immensely.

Re: Dashing - A dashboard framework

#74
that's awful. css and some javascript? do we really need anymore head-up-arse code junk floating around our heads right now? every five minutes there is a new javascript plugin/distraction that claims to change our lives. When will you people get a life and start solving real problems?

Re: Dashing - A dashboard framework

#75

that's awful. css and some javascript? do we really need anymore head-up-arse code junk floating around our heads right now? every five minutes there is a new javascript plugin/distraction that claims to change our lives. When will you people get a life and start solving real problems?

frankenstein coding, glue this sinatra dashboard to you php symfony "instance" and upload to s3. why waste our time? where are the integration points for this and who is really going to use it? Do i pitch this to my boss?

Re: Dashing - A dashboard framework

#77
post #54

Exceptionally handsome if you like Windows 8 perhaps. I don't like the big rectangles with bright colors. A good dashboard should be almost invisible until something important happens.

Dashing contributor here: That's great, the default style isn't supposed to be a one-size-fits-all solution, and it's definitely not trying to dictate design decisions. The real meat of the project is the underlying messaging that passes your data from the server to multiple clients. You write a job that calls send_data, and Dashing takes care of the rest. There's room for as much customization as you like on the fro…

Are there any plans to have native graphite input widgets? This is super cool: http://thomasvm.github.com/blog/2012/11/19/bling-dashboards-...

But I don't understand why native graphite widgets aren't in dashing. These two projects (graphite + dashing) are literally made for eachother.

Re: Dashing - A dashboard framework

#78

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

How do I stay tuned for the Python version?

Re: Dashing - A dashboard framework

#79
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I would not be surprised if spinning up on CoffeeScript was easier for beginners without real JavaScript experience.

yeah, probably. Dunno if it's a good thing, that people start with a transcompiled language...

That's just an implementation detail. CoffeeScript has syntax and semantics every bit as valid as JS's.

Re: Dashing - A dashboard framework

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post #77
post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dashing contributor here: That's great, the default style isn't supposed to be a one-size-fits-all solution, and it's definitely not trying to dictate design decisions. The real meat of the project is the underlying messaging that passes your data from the server to multiple clients. You write a job that calls send_data, and Dashing takes care of the rest. There's room for as much customization as you like on the fro…

Are there any plans to have native graphite input widgets? This is super cool: http://thomasvm.github.com/blog/2012/11/19/bling-dashboards-... But I don't understand why native graphite widgets aren't in dashing. These two projects (graphite + dashing) are literally made for eachother.

Dashing was built to run the internal dashboards here at Shopify. As such it's biased towards our existing technology stack. Seeing as we don't use graphite, we had no need to include widgets that support it.

That's why we want people to submit third-party widgets and jobs. We can't cater to all environments ourselves, but others can help out and share their own.

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