I have a love hate relation with Windows but since Windows 2012 I started to dislike Windows more and more.
The step to go over to Linux started to interest me more and more with the birth of the Raspberry PI.
Also friends like Robert and Rene pushed me for years to make the turn

And since i got to know the Nodejs framework on Linux i had to make the switch.
And believe me; im loving every minute of it, what a relieve it is to program on Linux with Nodejs.
i have many Nodejs/MQTT/Websockets projects running now, but the first one who is presentable is the Node-js Iskra smartmeter solution.
I have a Raspberry connected to my smartmeter which sends the data via MQTT to the broker which is running on a Cubietruck http://blog.bwired.nl/?p=877
The Cubie is logging all the data to a mysql server which is also on the cubietruck and the Cubie is presenting this realtime smartmeter webpage with a realtime Graph
check out http://www.mijnsmartmeter.nl
A more detailed blog with sources can be found here http://blog.bwired.nl/?p=913
Later im panning also to open up a MQTT broker on my server so i can receive your MQTT messages as well!
Again special thanks goes out to Rene and Robert who turned me and helped me out with samples etc. during my Windows transition
