Maven build notifications
Setting up new environment is usually a great time to reflect on all the great things and all the bad things you had encountered in the past. Now I had just experienced this very moment twice in a row, thus resulting in a full scale tools revision. One of the things I have always overlooked were command line aliases. Once I decided to use aliases, another question was in order: Why to stop there, isn't there a way to put them to even better use? And after a while of googling I found a great article http://erics-notes.blogspot.cz/2013/06/maven-ant-alerts-in-ubuntu.html , it describes how to get system notifications from command line.