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)
Among other cool radiators at Last.FM. Link
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. Link
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. Link
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 at the Guardian [...]
Originally 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. A Bettabrite scrolling LED [...]
You want to check in? Is the CruiseControl build green? What you do mean, you don’t know? Everybody in the project room (and ideally, those people the project room) should know what is going on with the build. Broken Continuous Integration builds mean that the project can’t release working software. So to keep the team [...]