I hated skipping back and forth to CruiseControl.rb at work to keep an eye on various builds so I’ve put this widget together to make life a little easier. The Builds Status Monitor Dashboard widget takes the build rss feed and displays the current build status. Does what it says on the tin.
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Download:
Click here to download the Build Status Monitor. Just unzip and install, minimum requirements MacOS 10.4.x. This is my first Dashboard widget so some of the code is a bit untidy. I’ve tried to keep the look and feel clean. Please let me know if you have any problems or suggestions.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:31 am
[...] been using Dashcode for the last two weeks or so while creating my Build Status Monitor widget. First impressions are not too bad. As IDE’s go, it does the job. You can write your html, [...]
July 5th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Hey Johnny, the link to the download is broken (points to localhost). I think you wanted to show: http://blog.johnnypez.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/build-status-monitor.zip
March 19th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
URLs of the following form are considered invalid.
http://username:password@domain.com
I opened it in Dashcode and removed that check. Seems to work OK now.
March 27th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Thanks for pointing that out. I haven’t had the need to use this myself in quite some time and haven’t been maintaining it.