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The blog of Sam Newman. A Software Developer in London.

A Build Radiator for CCTray Feeds

I spend most of my time working in team areas with other devs, as part of a team who check in frequently and who always use a Continuous Integration tool. When the build is broken, it’s a problem. Typically, a big problem - it should be the top priority of any team to fix a broken build.

The problem is that all of the tools out there provide web interfaces that work well on a desktop, but are rubbish as an information radiators. Information radiators sit in the corner of the room, often several meters away.

Big Visible Wall is a scala webserver which displays the status of one or more cctray feeds. It uses an embedded jetty server. Consider it a software appliance. cctray feeds are supported by multiple different tools, so it seemed like a good choice. It’s been tested with Cruise and Hudson, but should work with anything that serves up cctray.

Grab the distro and let me know if it works for you.

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