During the course of developing node-opcua, a javascript framework for OPCUA powered by nodejs, I came across the need to measure the performance of nodejs on various hardware including ARM based nano-computers such as RasberryPi and BeagleBoneBlack.

Here are two methods that can be use to find the version of the V8 engine that a particular version of node is using.

Here are two methods that can be use to find the version of the V8 engine that a particular version of node is using.

I am now using octopress hosted in GitHub for my blog. Octopress is based on Jekyll which is a static site generator written in Ruby. Jekyll uses a combination of Liquid and Markdown , two markup engines that allow you to write your post almost in plain ascci without worrying about the HTML syntax.

After installing a appropriated plugin, I was able to insert youtube video frame using a Liquid sequence

 {% youtube VIDEO_ID %}

The Raspberry Pi is a 35$ nano-computer that can do a lot