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Thursday Oct 28, 2004

Development dashblog

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Today Simon Brown pointed out a brief but interesting article he wrote called Blog Your Build. Simon wrote a couple of very cool little Ant tasks that make it possible for a build script to blog - to post messages to a weblog. Sounds crazy, but it is a really cool idea.

Build system blogging, newsfeed aggregators, newsfeed enabled source code control servers, newsfeed enabled issue trackers, blogs, and wikis make it possible to build a powerful dashboard website - a dashblog if you will - for a software development project.

I imagine a development dashblog as a portal like site that looks a lot like Javablogs.com. The dashblog aggregates all of the project developer's blogs together into a project blog. Like Javablogs.com does, a dashblog might allow each reader to choose favorite blogs to be highlighted and those to be excluded from the main page. In the sidebars of the dashblog are displayed newsfeeds from the projects issue tracking system, the automatically generated build blog, the recent changes of the project's wiki, recent checkins to the projects source code control system, and news from other team's dashblogs.

Does your team already have a development dashblog?

Update: Hey, that's kind like this: Wordpress RSS Aggregator (found via del.icio.us)

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