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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)...


Posted 07-02-2004 12:27 AM by Brendan Tompkins

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Darrell wrote re: Bob the Build Breaker
on 07-02-2004 3:46 AM
Dude that's awesome! I need to post a picture of our old build breaker award.
Paul Laudeman wrote re: Bob the Build Breaker
on 07-02-2004 3:47 AM
Excellent! Now, where can Darrell, Mark D., and I pick up one for our project? <g>
Darrell Norton's Blog wrote The Build Breaker award
on 07-02-2004 3:58 AM
The Build Breaker award
Brendan Tompkins wrote re: Bob the Build Breaker
on 07-02-2004 4:21 AM
Ha! Paul, I may have a line on a endless supply... It'll cost you though.
Mark wrote re: Bob the Build Breaker
on 07-19-2004 3:54 AM
I remember the time I arrived at work to find a Bob the Builder steering wheel attached to my keyboard!

--Mark

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