posts - 4238, comments - 3946, trackbacks - 370

My Links

News



Subscribe Subscribe

image image image





This is my personal weblog. These postings are provided 'AS IS' with no warranties, and confer no rights. The views expressed on this weblog are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.

Licenza Creative Commons

Tag Cloud

Archives

Post Categories

Spettacolo!!! Brian the Build Bunny

L'amico Martin Woodward è sempre troppo avanti. Oltre ad essere l'autore di TeamPrise, il plugin TFS per Eclipse, ha creato un plugin per utilizzare il Nabaztag per verificare l'andamento delle Build. Se le Team Build (ad esempio quelle di Continuous Integration) falliscono, Brian il coniglio abbasserà le orecchie tutto triste e sconsolato. Guardate il video perchè è troppo divertente.

Ah... se solo quelli di Nabaztag avessero mantenuto la promessa di mandarmi il premio vinto DUE ANNI FA su Community Credit, a quest'ora potrei giocarci pure io con le Build... smile_sad

I'm always keen try new and novel ways to keep in touch with the status of my software projects.  Fortunately, Team Foundation Server provides many ways to do this.  While the Build Wallboard is fun if you have a spare monitor and machine lying around, I wanted to experiment with some inexpensive dedicated devices, and so Brian the Build Bunny was born.

Brian is a Nabaztag smart rabbit.  He reads out details of check-ins and builds.  If a build has failed then his ears go down to show how sad he feels, but if you fix the build his ears will soon pick up again.

I've had Brian for about a year now waiting to do this project, but when I tried it in the past I always found the response times from the rabbit to be too slow.  However earlier this year, the Nabaztag developers updated the code running the rabbits so that they are now using the XMPP (Jabber) protocol to receive updates and the service now seems pretty good.

Brian is now sitting on my desk chattering away and letting me know what is happening in TFS.  If you want to find out more about how he works and see him in action then take a look at the video.  I'll go through the code behind Brian in a later post if there is any interest, but it is pretty much a standard TFS event listener that then sends text to the rabbit using the Nabaztag API.

Fonte: Brian the Build Bunny

Technorati Tags:

Print | posted on giovedì 29 maggio 2008 12:10 | Filed Under [ Community e amici ]

Feedback

Gravatar

# re: Spettacolo!!! Brian the Build Bunny

bello ma esistono plugin per diversi CI server (primo tra tutti cruise control) da molto tempo
29/05/2008 13:24 | Zio
Comments have been closed on this topic.

Powered by:
Powered By Subtext Powered By ASP.NET