Today I released my first app – Habitz – on Android Market. Info and QR can be found here.

It has been built on the Flex Hero framework, and is using the Robotlegs micro-architecture.

As one of our projects have a focus on home automation, an office automation setup of the project, like this, would be very cool. Very much configurable with Hudson. It lights lava lamps based on the status of the Hudson RSS feed- if the most recent of any builds fails, the red lamp will light; if the most recent of each builds succeeds, the program will light the green lamp.

And, yes, I agree..email noficications are so 90´s!

The sample can be found here, and the source code here.

Hudson is a free java-based continous integration server with a very vibrant community of developers and users. And it is actually quit easy to install. This is a short description of the steps involved to build the Flex-mojo´s HelloWorld sample on a windows machine. You can find more descriptions on how to configure maven and the flex-mojo in the wiki link above.

1. Install Java

2. install Maven.

3. Install Tomcat (for later purposes I have choosen the last blazeds turnkey version).

4. Download and deploy hudson.war (by simply copying the file to the tomcat webapps folder)

5. Run the startup.bat from Tomcats bin-folder, and go to: http://localhost:8400/hudson/.

6. Set up JAVA_HOME + MAVEN_HOME in: Manage Hudson > Configure System

7. Set up the Flex-mojos HelloWordTutorial (http://code.google.com/p/flex-mojos/wiki/HelloWorldTutorial) to HUDSON_HOME/job by adding:
- simpleapp/workspace/pom.xml
- simpleapp/workspace/src/main/flex/Main.mxml

8. Add the new job, by setting the projectname to “simpleapp”, and checking the “Build maven 2 project”.

9. Add additional settings like email-notification and subversion, and press save.

10. Back on the dashboard the new job should now be listed.

11. Press the run-icon to the right, and watch it beeing built.

The application is compiled into a snapshot in simpleapp/modules/com.example.flex$simple-flex-application/builds/<timestamp>/archive/com.example.flex/simple-flex-application/1.0-SNAPSHOT/simple-flex-application-1.0-SNAPSHOT.swf.

Logg-files are created at simpleapp/builds/<timestamp>

Good luck!

But ideally I would like some easy-to-view kind of notification tool. I found some more or less complicated scripts making rss-feeds, but I also found ComittMonitor, which resides in the system tray and shows a notification popup when changes has been made. Great work!

One question might be what software to use when reading feeds. But an even better question to ask is maybe how many configurable environments do I actively want to split my feed-reading into. Just like spending some time sorting bookmarks or bills, some time needs to be spent on sorting feeds.

Besides from recommending the Air-application Snackr, which easily wins the ambient competition (if there was one) – over the RSS Reader in Windows Vista desktop gadgets, I would like to recommend the RSS View for Eclipse for feeds very close to what you and your team are working on. Just create a blog for your workgroup, and/or add your team member´s blogs to the settings.

I would also very much appreciate an RSS-reader in my alarm clock radio. a calm projection, like Snackr, in the roof, with its random item´s slowly scrolling from left to right. And if I hit the button beside snooze, It would stop and give me the content…

When taking my own blog (only the first page) as the input, it produces this piece of art:

I can get really excited and at the same time upset about the world (Wide Web) of opportunities, and – at the same time – the depressing desktop application GUI´s.

An experience discovered when creating this one, makes me smile again:

idx-experiment

…triggers me in the direction to Michelangeloes painting…

 
	<!--[CDATA[
		import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
		import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
		import mx.rpc.remoting.RemoteObject;
 
		private const VISITS_SERVICE:String = "CounterService";
		private var _ro:RemoteObject;
		[Bindable]-->

Now it´s time for the funny stuff!