From: "Wayne E. Seguin" <wayneeseguin@...>
Date: 2007-07-07T00:40:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Can you recommend a language to...

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On Jul 06, 2007, at 07:29 , Sharon Phillips wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Second question for the evening, but very closely related to the  
> first.
>
> I've written some monitoring software at work, and would like to  
> extend it quite a bit, including a gui with a few graphs.
> Ruby is causing me grief when it comes to distributing it (see 'Oh  
> the Pain!...'), and assuming there's no way to overcome this, can  
> anyone recommend a language that:
> * has a canvas with anti-aliasing, alpha-blending and double  
> buffering  (or binding to a toolkit with one)
> * is simple to distribute
> * is cross platform (*nix and Windows)
> * is not Java (I actually like Java, I'm just trying to get away  
> from it)
> * graphing libraries a bonus. Don't mind writing my own.
>
> I've considered a web app, but two things stand in my way:
> * Somewhere to host it (not much here you guys can help with)
> * Graphs becoming images and constant page refreshes chewing up  
> bandwidth on the LAN.
> I need to be able to update the graphs and any other displays  
> regularly (every minute or so) without sending another whole page.  
> Currently all I've seen of web graphs are generated on the server  
> and sent out as images. I'd like the ability to make them  
> interactive down the track, if possible.
>
> Any help, advice or war stories much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave

http://fiveruns.com/ is not just for rails and it might do everything  
you need already.

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Wayne E. Seguin
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