Open sourced: Campfire notifications for Highrise emails
I just open sourced one of our internal tools, a script to post notifications of Highrise activity into a Campfire chat room. You can download the Highrise notifier from GitHub:
http://github.com/crowdvine/highrise_to_campfire/tree/master
Highrise and Campfire are both products from 37signals and are two of our most important tools. Highrise is a simple customer relationship manager. We love it. Campfire is a simple chat room. It’s how we stay in touch when we’re not working in the same physical space.
The key part of our workflow is to keep our work status updated in the chat room. It’s a way to avoid meetings, and I like the feeling of momentum. Almost all of our work activities generate a notification.
There are a lot of other great scripts that you could use with Campfire. When I was getting the script ready for release, I pulled some bits from Backfire, a Backpack to Campfire notifier. So of course I have to recommend that. If you search GitHub, you can also find notifiers for code commits, twitter searches, Basecamp, and continuous integration servers.
Tags: opensource
December 9th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
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