My current project uses cruise control, but it doesn't send emails on breakage.... so I put together this quick 3 line cron script script to popup a little notification when the build breaks... sweet! # cron entry to put up notifications when the build fails. DISPLAY=:0 */5 * * * * /bin/sh -c "if wget -q -O - http://cruisecontrol/rss/project|grep ''|grep -v Summary|head -1|grep -i fail > /dev/null; then notify-send -t 15000 -i /home/bob/bin/exclamation.png 'Project' 'Build Problem'; fi" Note the full path on the image is important. You Mac people can use Growl instead of notify-send.

// Groovy web server using only the JDK in 8 lines please
import com.sun.net.httpserver.*;
HttpServer server = HttpServer.create(new InetSocketAddress(2222),0)
server.createContext('/', { HttpExchange exchange ->
    exchange.sendResponseHeaders(200,0);
    exchange.responseBody.write('hello from groovy land.'.bytes)
    exchange.responseBody.close();
}  as HttpHandler)
server.start();

Crystal misplaced her phone charger, but we still had one for the car.... I was thinking how nice it would be to have a 12 volt car adapter for the wall... Hello monoprice.com!!!, I love those guys...

I created and placed in the market Car Cast Pro. I also updated the web page with a little more information about Car Cast. Car Cast Pro is $2.99 (about the cost of a beer.)

iPad apps that I recommend

I'm very lucky to get a free phone from google as a part of the Developer Seeding program.

Alas I didnt get the one I wanted. Hopefully the Android Device Exchange can help everyone in this situation!

ipad is cool... even if apple is not.

Scary and True...