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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. If doing this for an MS platform... by Dorsai65 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you can just plug the lamp in and leave it on.

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  2. microsoft... by knoledgesponge · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hmm, they make these for compiling errors when microsoft compiles their OS...[:-P] -sp0nge

  3. Anonymous by Photar · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'd prefer sirens and flashing LEDs.

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  4. Lava Lamps are for sissies - Pavlov's developer by otisg · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have a better idea. Hook up the continous build system to the electrical power system, and put small electrodes in developer's chairs. Then configure the build system to figure out which developer caused a build failure, and soon you'll have developers that never forget to run unit tests before commit.

    Or, you could try a bit different approach. Instead of shocking the developer at fault, shock all his co-workers. Then the co-workers will make sure he/she never makes the same mistake again.

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  5. Slashdotted by garethwi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I bet all of his fucking lava lamps are burning brightly.

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