The charting of electricity usage are improving as my understanding of highcharts is improving - and they now look better

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It is of course difficult to use the dynamic zoom features in a static image as the one I have embedded here (-; .

My first try at generating nice javascript graphs (using highcharts) from the Wattson electricity consumption meter :

nb! All text x-axis text is wrong, and the header text is wrong as well. (Did I mention that this was my first try)

As I really want to learn Ruby On Rails - and as I have chosen to build a "dashboard" for our home monitoring system (and not wanting to do it in Flash - as we have both iPhones and iPads) I found a ruby gem called "acs_as_dashboard" to start off with (version 0.4.0 for those that are interested).

But after wrestling with it on and off for 2 days and still not managing to get the application up and running I managed to find a downloadable demo called "acts_as_dashboard_example" - downloaded it, and it worked immediately!

Once in a while a new way of serving web pages (or parts of pages) comes along - and Meteor is one of these :

Meteor is an HTTP server which gives developers the freedom to think about web development in an entirely new way. It comprises the Meteor server and a standalone Javascript class which can be used in webpages to provide an abstraction layer for receiving data streams. Designed to be as simple and flexible as possible, Meteor offers a great solution for those wishing to add asynchronous functionality to their web projects.