Music Transparency
Posted by Kevin Hazard, February 22nd, 2006
Over at the madcap E5 Engineering Site, we’ve just added a nifty section that now shows what music team members are listening to in real time. The few souls out there that are mildly interested can now correlate a developer’s activity to an accompanying soundtrack.
Spot a wacky idea submission or a build breakage? Ah, Brittany Spears, Creed, an experimental noisecore band (we all have our guilty pleasures) or a poor random choice on iTunes’ behalf may be to blame.
We thought it might be fun to add this kind of transparency to the site. Matt implemented this feature through the magic of Rails in a mere 30 minutes, as it pulls data from our team members’ last.fm feeds. It was adopted by the rest of the engineering team in unheard-of quickness.
To witness the real-time magic, header over to the music page on engineering.site5.com.
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