I've already talked about how we're using a project blog, but I made a quick change the other day so that we could use it as an (almost) extreme feedback device.

Figure 1 : Happy build

Figure 2 : Sad build

If you're running a Pebble multi-user instance, the trick here is to drop some code into your templates (/common/jsp/template.jsp and /themes/default/jsp/template.jsp) to redefine some of the CSS styles.

<%
  SimpleBlog buildBlog = BlogManager.getInstance().getBlog("build");
  List blogEntries = buildBlog.getRecentBlogEntries(1);
  if (blogEntries.size() > 0) {
    BlogEntry blogEntry = (BlogEntry)blogEntries.get(0);
    if (blogEntry.getTitle().matches(".*Build Failed.*")) {
%>
      <style type="text/css">
        .header {
          background : #CC0000;
          color: white;
          background-position: center;
          background-repeat: no-repeat;
          font-weight: bold;
        }
        .footer {
          background: #CC0000;
          color: white;
          font-size: 11px;
          font-weight: bold;
        }
        a:link, a:visited, a:active {
          color: #CC0000;
          text-decoration: none;
          font-weight: bold;
        }
      </style>
<%
    } else {
%>
      <style type="text/css">
        a:link, a:visited, a:active {
          color: #00CC00;
          text-decoration: none;
          font-weight: bold;
        }
        .header {
          background : #00CC00;
          color: white;
          background-position: center;
          background-repeat: no-repeat;
          font-weight: bold;
        }
        .footer {
          background: #00CC00;
          color: white;
          font-size: 11px;
          font-weight: bold;
        }
      </style>
<%
    }
  }
%>

I've also added a meta-refresh to the multi-user template so that we can leave the blog sitting in a browser window, reloading every few minutes.

<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="600; URL=<c:out value="${blog.url}"/>">

Not very subtle colours but they work!

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Posted by Simon Brown on 04 February 2005 11:15:53 GMT #