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eXtreme Feedback Devices

Build radiator meets browser

December 8, 2009

At ScaleCamp, the Guardian peeps told me that they still use the radiator that Michael and I wrote. Sure it’s totally different now, but it’s heartening to see.
But things have moved on. This blog post from Fabio Periera describes a new radiator that renders the entire dashboard display in the browser, using GreaseMonkey. [...]

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6 Big Visible Continuous Integration Tools

August 18, 2009
traffic lights

I love Information Radiators. You can have all the Twitter plugins you like, but unless you have the updates on the wall, you’re missing something. Here’s a few examples:

Green Screen: Martin Andrews just released this. It’s a Sinatra app, and looks like it works for Hudson – perhaps with some tweaking it’ll work elsewhere.[Ruby]
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Hudson on Ubuntu with Big Visible results in six steps

June 4, 2009

We’ve written before about making your Continuous Integration build (and more) available on the big screen. I just told our CEO that a red build meant that we weren’t ready to release code. That’s a key fact to share with the rest of your team.
Yesterday I set this up at work. It was the [...]

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VIDEO: Big Visible Build Status at YouDevise

May 1, 2009

I had pizza with the guys at YouDevise on Tuesday. It’s always a pleasure; they are constantly inspecting and adapting what they do. The team had a talk about acceptance testing and CI, and I was privileged enough to join in.
They wrote their own build status visualizer and have been using it for quite some [...]

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links for 2008-12-29

December 30, 2008

tattletail – alternative to bigvisiblecruise
on my to-do list: check this out of svn and fire it up. I would ideally like something that draws objects on the screen without the aid of a browser
(tags: ci)

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Evil Red Build Status Bear

August 18, 2008

Among other cool radiators at Last.FM.
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Build status screen saver for Mac OS X

July 6, 2008

Carlos Villela has released a Mac OS X screen saver for CruiseControl (Ruby, Java or .NET, I think – there’s an XML interface that they all support). Really thoughtful idea.
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iPhone build status application for CruiseControl

June 29, 2008

Alex Hung from ThoughtWorks has written this nifty app so you can check CruiseControl build status on your iPhone. Putting aside all concerns like work/life balance, it’s pretty cool.
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The guardian.co.uk Build Radiator – a guest post by Michael Brunton-Spall

June 23, 2008

Michael Brunton-Spall and I both worked on the Guardian ‘R2′ project – in fact, Michael is still there. Last year, we worked together a couple of times on that project. In this guest post he discusses the thing I’m most pleased that we worked on together – an Extreme Feedback device known [...]

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CruiseControl radiator – very disco

June 14, 2008

Cruise Control LightsOriginally uploaded by Znachor
It looks like something that my Dad would have put together in the 80’s. I like it.
The problem with Lava lamps is the granularity. Great for your 6 person project, not so great for the larger team. I manage around 80 different CI builds at work. [...]

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