Jake Worrell 
June 24, 2011I thought it was probably about time added a new post to my poor, lonely blog.
Buildiator is a basic “radiator view” for use with continuous integration servers. I threw it together quite quickly but, its a little bit nicer looking than the ones I have seen. It looks like this:
It should work on any php ~5.3 web server. It just supports Jenkins currently and I have no plans to add any others myself at this point in time, but doing so should be quite easy.
It seems to work OK though it hasn’t been exhaustively tested at all, ironically it lacks unit tests. I had created it for my own needs but thought I might as well open it up for anyone to use. You can get it here. Feel free to fork it and do whatever you wish to it, comments are welcome as always.
Awesome stuff Jake!! Good to see you still have the PHP juices flowing (that sounds kinda wrong I know!!)
Chat soon dude… I miss them Friday pizzas!!
Hi Gavin, Thanks for the comment.
I do try and keep it up… sorry, that sounds worse.
We haven’t done pizza Friday for months now! I had pretty much forgotten about it. Might have to do it again some time soon.
Hello,
Link doesn’t work anymore.
Can you check it?
Sorry about that! I changed my github username yesterday and forgot to update my links.
Should be fixed now
Hi Jake,
Just to say that my company has forked Buildiator on GitHub – mainly because we want to do some CSS updates to it. And also because we wanted to rename it to ‘BigBoard’ for cultural reference reasons
It’s at: https://github.com/SpotSpecific/BigBoard
We were wondering if you had a licence in mind for it? I know your note says ‘feel free to fork it’ but we wanted to be sure.
We’ll upstream any relevant changes and send you a pull request as soon as we can. By the way, GitHub says you don’t have an email address set up.
Thanks for your efforts.
Graeme
Hi Graeme
I’m delighted and flattered that you want to use Buildiator. Its also great that you have managed to think of a better name than me! I’ll be keeping an eye on the project out of nosiness
Regarding licence I have thought about slapping an MIT licence on it which basically gives anyone free reign to do whatever they like. I notice you have given me credit on your repo which is nice, thank you.
Sorted my github email adress too, thanks for letting me know!
I’m excited to see what changes you guys want to make, looking forward to receiving those pull requests!
Jake
Hi Jake,
Thanks for that. One of my colleagues is working on a template system for it, so that people can write themes more easily, as well as integrate other data sources via XHR requests. Less significantly, we’ve also changed the ‘successful’ colour to green…!
We’ll submit pull requests once all that is cleaned up.
Regarding a licence, that’s great. If that’s what you end up deciding, would you mind adding a license file to the repo when you get a chance and we’ll replicate it to our repos? Just so that all the downstream copies will credit you and everyone knows where they stand.
Thanks again,
Graeme
Hi Jake
Themes would be useful, what with people preferring green to blue (I used blue to be consistent with Jenkins btw, if you wondered).
In an ideal world I think it would have a little admin interface where you could select a CI from a list and enter as hostname/ip etc. Maybe I can have a look at doing this sometime in the next couple of weeks if I find the time
Jake