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All our code is belong to you. That’s right, starting today we’re making the source code for three of our four projects publicly available. Those projects are Build Watch, Code Watch and Bug Watch (never released) and are meant to comprise a nice little suite of development utilities for the iPhone. You can find the code for those projects and others on our GitHub page.  In case you’re unfamiliar with these projects, here’s a little information on each:

Bug Watch is a Lighthouse client for the iPhone and iPod touch. (Lighthouse is our preferred issue tracking system.) We were close to releasing this app some time ago when we got distracted by writing a Twitter push notification server. We planned to come back and finish it when we found some time. Still waiting for that to happen. Here’s a screenshot:

Code Watch is a GitHub iPhone app. This app was available on the iPhone App Store as a free download called ‘Code Watch Open Source’ and as a paid version that provided access to private repos, just called ‘Code Watch’. For now, we’ve dropped the lite version and made the ‘pro’ version a free download.

Build Watch, High Order Bit’s first project, is a simple client for various continuous integration servers (CruiseControl and Hudson). There are many types of continuous integration servers and even more customized configurations. We hope opening up the source code will allow people to implement support for their setup with minimal effort while being able to leverage the full range of Build Watch features.

All of these projects are licensed under the MIT License, which basically means you can do whatever you want with the code. Unfortunately, we don’t anticipate having a ton of time to further contribute to these projects, so we’re hoping they’ll attract some new developers. If that’s you, we’d love to hear from you and answer any questions you might have.

We’ve released our first application! It’s a continuous integration client for the iPhone. You can learn more about it (and purchase it) at the Build Watch product page. If you want to tell us how awesome it is, or suggest an improvement, please contact us at feedback@highorderbit.com.

We plan to invest a modest amount of money in advertising, and perhaps post the resulting sales on this blog. We’re also underway with our next app in the “Dev Watch” series, which we’ll be blogging about soon. So, if you haven’t yet done so, subscribe.