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July 2, 2009

Talking Reevoo Santa - It’s creepy and open to abuse.

Filed under: Projects — Tags: , , , — tomlea @ 3:28 pm

Recently the Reevoo office gained a new friend. A 4’6” talking, dancing Santa (because we start Christmas early here). So we hooked him up to our now famous talking rabbit, and now our build notifications are announced by Santa Himself.

As one would expect, the developers (myself most definitely included) began to make Santa announce more than just build statuses and deployments. Santa became our favourite way to drag Edwin, our user experience guru over to our desks (it sure beats turning round and talking).

After some time of this, other Reevolvers (who can’t hack together the ruby code to do this) wanted access… and I felt bad about hogging all the fun.

Enter Reevoo Santa:

Reevoo Santa Screenshot

Reevoo Santa Screenshot

Now the whole office is making Santa say stupid things.

We now come to phase 3, letting the general public (and you too) make Santa say stupid things!

http://santa.reevoo.com/

Please keep the creepy messages to a minimum between 7 and 9pm… the cleaning staff get spooked.

p.s. there is a pool on how long we can keep this live for, 10p says we will be forced to take it down due to wide spread abuse by Monday.

The Reevoo Santa source code is available on github, and is hosted  on Heroku, who host small applications awesomely.

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