On the way to perfect computing

For a last couple of weeks I’ve been involved in a huge C++ project that takes donkeys year to compile.

What would you do during this compilation? Exactly, switch to another task. It’s enough to be easily carried away, and it’s very wasteful to check a build each 5 minutes.

So, I decided to compose a notification application. Notif;) consists of a UDP server that serves clients and shows floating notifications written using MFC.
Also Notif;) includes client library that performs socket connection to a server and transmits notification messages.

I wrote a simple Visual Studio Add-in that uses Notif-Client and notifies server about build events.

This how it looks:

I would like to enhance projects architecture and capabilities forth and make it possible to add own plug-ins and receive notification email, rss feed notifications, etc.
Later I’ll post source code and more information in a section Projects of the site.