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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. already down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Putting a hyperlink to a cgi file will cause HTTP 500 errors. Think before you post people.

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Troll

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  3. JAVA?! by BestNicksRTaken · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why not just use the xtend/heyu/BottleRocket software - it's C so you can just call it from any script, and you don't have to wait half an hour for the interpreter to start up.

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