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Bob the Build Breaker

A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of working with this guy. One thing he introduced me to was the “Build Breaker” award. The concept here is simple, if you check breaking code into source control, you get the award (until someone else gets it). It's a pretty good way to keep people from checking in bad code. Yeah, it's a litte mean too, but if you have a good, close team, it can be all in good fun.

So I have proudly carried the Build Breaker tradition to the Port. But, instead of a dunce cap with Homer Simpson's face on it or anything like that, our award looks like this:

It's more of a trophy, really... to put atop your monitor. Only the developers know what it really means (diabolical laughter)...



Comments

Paul Laudeman said:

Excellent! Now, where can Darrell, Mark D., and I pick up one for our project? <g>
# July 2, 2004 3:47 AM

Darrell Norton's Blog said:

The Build Breaker award
# July 2, 2004 3:58 AM

Brendan Tompkins said:

Ha! Paul, I may have a line on a endless supply... It'll cost you though.
# July 2, 2004 4:21 AM

Mark said:

I remember the time I arrived at work to find a Bob the Builder steering wheel attached to my keyboard!

--Mark
# July 19, 2004 3:54 AM

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About Brendan Tompkins

Brendan has been programming with .NET since the first public beta and is owner and operator of Port Technology Services, a consultancy company providing .NET application development services to the Maritime industry. In July, 2007, he was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for ASP.NET. He's also a proud co-founder of failed .COM startup Intrinsigo, and has had a hand in the failure of numerous other businesses. He currently runs CodeBetter.Com and Devlicio.us, and lives in Norfolk, Virgina with his wife Tiara and son Ian.

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