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| eXtremistas:
My gen-X boss likes to "bounce" his server. That means stop and start it, so
it can pull in a fresh WAR (web-archive) file.
His bounce script sends a loud WAV file clip to WMA; a sample of a funk song
containing the lyric "bounce".
These are just a few of the benefits of having a boss younger than you. He
can also help me figure out how my new cell phone works. But, as we'll see,
I can trace his funky musical connotations to their roots.
The WAV file got me thinking of a good team practice. Here it goes:
Put a high-volume WAV file clip in your integration script
That is the theory that I have, and which is mine, and what it is too.
The benefits are less than obvious. (The drawbacks are you must get off your
rumps and configure all the under-used sound cards in your coding chamber.)
For a team frantically XP-ing away, the frequent "Bounce" or "integrate"
sounds from around the room will condition programmers to salivate like
Pavlov's Pooches. They will realize - even subconsciously - that they must
integrate soon, to get the new code. This will inspire them to integrate as
soon as they can, and repeat that sound. This will inspire others to
integrate soon.
So the bounce sounds, speaking to each other from around the room, will soon
set up a "call and response" pattern in music theory. Setting lyrics to this
pattern leads to:
Solo: There's a bounce in my server, lawd
Chorus: My new war-files
Solo: There's a bounce in my server, dude
Chorus: My new com-piles
Solo: One of these evenings getting dark
When my new features hit the mark
When that green bar is show'd
G'wine integrate my heavy load
--
Phlip
http://www.xpsd.org/cgi-bin/wiki?Te...tUserInterfaces
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| Jonathan White 2004-04-12, 4:32 pm |
| We have 'success' and 'failure' wavs at the end of the local build scripts -
mainly used to gloat at the winning of an integration race :).
also success and failure noises on our build server (which runs all of the
tests - takes about an hour) and a football clacker to sound when new code
has been committed to the repository.
"Phlip" <phlip_cpp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9eMdc.52666$cW2.12090@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com...
> eXtremistas:
>
> My gen-X boss likes to "bounce" his server. That means stop and start it,
so
> it can pull in a fresh WAR (web-archive) file.
>
> His bounce script sends a loud WAV file clip to WMA; a sample of a funk
song
> containing the lyric "bounce".
>
> These are just a few of the benefits of having a boss younger than you. He
> can also help me figure out how my new cell phone works. But, as we'll
see,
> I can trace his funky musical connotations to their roots.
>
> The WAV file got me thinking of a good team practice. Here it goes:
>
> Put a high-volume WAV file clip in your integration script
>
> That is the theory that I have, and which is mine, and what it is too.
>
> The benefits are less than obvious. (The drawbacks are you must get off
your
> rumps and configure all the under-used sound cards in your coding
chamber.)
>
> For a team frantically XP-ing away, the frequent "Bounce" or "integrate"
> sounds from around the room will condition programmers to salivate like
> Pavlov's Pooches. They will realize - even subconsciously - that they must
> integrate soon, to get the new code. This will inspire them to integrate
as
> soon as they can, and repeat that sound. This will inspire others to
> integrate soon.
>
> So the bounce sounds, speaking to each other from around the room, will
soon
> set up a "call and response" pattern in music theory. Setting lyrics to
this
> pattern leads to:
>
> Solo: There's a bounce in my server, lawd
>
> Chorus: My new war-files
>
> Solo: There's a bounce in my server, dude
>
> Chorus: My new com-piles
>
> Solo: One of these evenings getting dark
>
> When my new features hit the mark
>
> When that green bar is show'd
>
> G'wine integrate my heavy load
>
> --
> Phlip
> http://www.xpsd.org/cgi-bin/wiki?Te...tUserInterfaces
>
>
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| Jonathan White wrote:
> We have 'success' and 'failure' wavs at the end of the local build
scripts -
> mainly used to gloat at the winning of an integration race :).
>
> also success and failure noises on our build server (which runs all of the
> tests - takes about an hour) and a football clacker to sound when new code
> has been committed to the repository.
Launching this thread taught me that Ant tasks have a <sound> action. It
even covers the "random sound from a folder" feature.
Friggin' open source, or whatever Ant is...
--
Phlip
http://www.xpsd.org/cgi-bin/wiki?Te...tUserInterfaces
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