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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:cool, but... by Gi77+B4t35 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    It's good to know when you're build starts to fail
    I've got an idea why I am build starts to fail. Probably a misplaced apostrophe or the fact that I can't spell.