#devicehub

Cluj-Napoca will be once more the gathering place for the CEE region’s foremost creatives, technologists and innovators, at the second edition Techsylvania, 6-9 June 2015. Techsylvania is aimed at promoting the Romanian IT communities as worldwide renowned technological centres and at stimulating the development of local products and solutions. It is the place where in-person inspiration is being passed on, ideas and knowledge are shared, projects and collaborations are started. The Techsylvania event consists in two main parts:

6-7 June: Wearable and Connected Devices Hackathon - a 24-hour hackathon on connected and wearable devices, focused on attracting the vast pool of talent available locally, the main goal being to build the best project within this time frame

8-9 June: Technology and Innovation Conference, where kick-ass speakers will inspire current and future entrepreneurs to start their own business and will provide access to the investing community and the latest trends in technology

For the over 130 technology savvies eager to develop innovative applications for wearables and Internet of Things devices who are expected to take part in the Hackathon, DeviceHub.net will provide a PaaS (Platform as a Service) through which the hardware/mobile developers can connect and remotely manage multiple devices.

DeviceHub.net is an IoT platform that allows makers and companies to easily connect their Internet-enabled hardware projects to a dashboard for data gathering, data analysis and remote control. The modular and extensible APIs allow users to get data in and data out of the platform. The PaaS offering is modular and built to scale with security and performance as primary objectives. It can be fully white-labeled, re-branded, and installed on-premise or in a Virtual Private Cloud for Enterprise-grade deployments. Software development kits for many programming languages and environments (Python, C++, JavaScript, Ruby, Android) and for the most popular open source development boards, as well as guidelines for various tools are also provided thorough DeviceHub.net. Moreover, the participants who will use the DeviceHub.net platform for their Hackathon project will benefit from a workshop on the features and the functionality of the platform, held by Constantin Craciun, co-founder of DeviceHub.net.

For source code management, I've settled myself on using git for the last 6 years. 

Recently I've discovered git:blit repository manager which is a very nice git repo and user manager written in java. Since I've discovered this tool, we've integrated it into our development process at DeviceHub, and using it to manage our private source code repositories.

We clearly fit in the “So yeah, we tried Slack ...” category, so after a while of using slack and git:blit, I badly wanted to see commit/push notifications on our #devicehub-devel channel. 

I hacked a short git:blit plugin script that does just this. In the hope that it can be usefull to someone else, here is the gist: 

https://gist.github.com/icotoi/1e8a7345a6f53d09728c

I love Python and I recommend any programmer (or non-programmer for that matter) to learn Python because it’s easy to learn, easy to prototype an idea with it and it has batteries included.

Batteries included means that it has a huge number of libraries and tools available for all sorts of specialised and generic tasks, from advanced mathematics calculus (NumPy) to 3D graphics (Panda3D) and web application platforms (see Django and Tornado), that you can reuse straight away to build your next project.

This saves you a lot of time and frustration associated with finding and integrating modules written in different programming languages or poorly documented.

At DeviceHub.net, Python is the programming language of choice for most of the modules that comprise our product. All of our engineers know Python to some degree. Even our embedded developers who usually write code targeted at microcontrollers in C & C++ touch Python scripts and applications daily.

For the Internet of Things market, we built DeviceHub.net with the `batteries included` philosophy in mind. That is, providing an easy to learn and extend platform to help you build and manage your next IoT product. Along with DeviceHub.net, comes a wide range of libraries for the popular programming languages - of course Python, C, C++, Ruby, JavaScript, iOS, Java - and hardware prototyping boards - Arduino, RaspberyPi, Intel Edison etc.

And we didn’t stop there! Nowadays, in order to have a great product, you should provide your end users with a mobile app. To help you in this task, we built Android and iOS mobile barebone apps that expose all of our platform’s functionalities. We give you full access to the source code of these mobile apps so that you can rebrand and customize it according to your needs.