title: Best way to publish Arduino sensor data to a web page?
body: <p>I want to read sensor information from an <a href="http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardUno" rel="nofollow">Arduino Uno</a>. I already have a Java program that connects to the serial port and reads the information from the Arduino.  </p>
  
  <p>I want to publish this information to a web page (currently my computer is running the Apache web server). I'm not that good at web development, however I can get by.</p>
  
  <p>My plan is to save the sensor data that I've read in from the Arduino to a file. I would update this file about every 1 minute. Then using some server side scripting language (i.e. PHP) read the data from the file and generate a web page showing the sensor information when the page is requested.</p>
  
  <p>However, this approach doesn't seem very "elegant". Is there a better way to perform this task? </p>
  
  <p>(Also, I'm only using the Arduino Uno with a USB port, I don't have an Ethernet <a href="http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoShields" rel="nofollow">shield</a>.)</p>