One of the cooler apps/frameworks on the Mac is Growl which allows other applications to send messages and alert the users in different ways. Kevin Clark is putting Growl to good use by sending out messages whenever their Subversion repository is updated. He's also posted the code for it.
I would love to have something like that because it was just last night that I was doing a build, installed it on the dev box and had to figure out why things were blowing up when they hadn't in my local copy. Of course, one of the other developers had updated a config file and I didn't know.
I found another use for Growl last year when I would have a script check the score of the Cubs and alert me whenever it changed. That allowed me to not obsessively recheck the online action and instead just check when something happened. I might have to clean the script up for this year and release. It could be pretty useful to folks.
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