When eye-candy and function meet, you get perfection. Now add ease of use and offloading of a few CPU cycles to the client and you get flot. It’s a JavaScript library for jQuery that creates beautiful diagrams from your raw data… just like that. It just works.
Take a look at this… awesome!
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I am currently evaluating ways to run a persistent Python WSGI Webapp using Apache2 or Lighttpd. The idea is to have a daemon running on it’s own doing all the work, that also has an interface towards the webserver.
So I set up Lighttpd as SCGI client and used flup to wrap a simple WSGI app [...]