I’ve just quickly hacked a fullscreen monitor for our continuous integration server at work. As for my personal projects, we use Hudson, which has a nice restful xml API.This small utility asks for the url of your Hudson server and retrieves all the jobs and their status. You can also provide the url to a view, would you want to only partially monitor your jobs (such as only the continuous integration builds, ignoring nightly builds, or the other way around).

When in full screen mode, the tool will poll the server every 15 seconds for job updates and render a fully red, yellow or blue (and

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