[LRUG] Jabbersonic: soundscapes for monitoring complex systems

[Chris Parsons]

Hi all,

Some of you might be interested in this: I've been experimenting with  
the idea of monitoring a complex system such as a project task flow or  
a site's uptime using a sonification to produce a natural soundscape.  
Imagine thunderclaps for live exceptions, crickets for new feature  
branches, gentle rain for a building system, a rainstorm for a failed  
build, that sort of thing.

Enter Jabbersonic[1], a little ruby app to allow the control of an  
arbitrary soundscape. It should work out of the box on a Mac with iLife.

I knocked it together in about 4 hours using Jabber::Simple and Gosu  
for sound: be gentle :)

See what you think. We've not tried it in anger yet... Is the idea  
crazy? Has anyone else experimented with something similar?

If there's wifi in the crypt at tonight's LRUG, I'll fire up the old  
laptop and demo it tonight to anyone who's interested.

Chris

[1] http://bit.ly/zVwiD

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Chris Parsons
CEO ~ Eden Development
www.edendevelopment.co.uk
(from my phone)