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Getting Your Boss To Buy Lava Lamps

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the boogie-down dept.

jarich writes "Mike Clark's blog provides directions and code on how to wire up lava lamps to your build system. When a compile or test fails, the red lava lamp gets switched on... The delay in the lamp heating up gives you a few minutes to fix things before it becomes obvious to co-workers that you broke the build. His example uses CruiseControl but you could easily modify it. Very cool stuff and inexpensive to setup."

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  1. Re:X10 Hardware?! by Jadsky · · Score: 5, Informative

    X-10 hardware and X10.com are not the same thing. The former is hardware based on a protocol that was invented in the early 70s. The latter is a company that just happens to make technology based on the protocol.

    One doesn't necessarily have to come from the other, and it's a shame that the vendor has ruined a perfectly useful technology, even shaming it doubly by making poor-quality electronics.

  2. Here's a link that works: by AndyHunt · · Score: 5, Informative
    Very funny, guys. We weren't expecting to get Slashdotted today. Try www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/pa/pa.html and it ought to work a little better for you.

    -- /\ndy