My first Chrome extension!
Since Google Chrome for Mac now supports extensions I decided to write one. I called it Tessie Notifier and all it does is display the status of the latest Disqus build. At work, we have special, testing-only machine called Tessie that automatically runs all the tests after each repository commit. It then generates a nice little report page. So my extension loads the page, checks the status and updates a browser-action icon.
(The ball on the right; it is blue (image of Neptune) when all tests passed, orange (Sun) when there are failures and white (Eris) when Tessie is not available. Also its tooltip shows latest commit information and clicking on it will load the report page for you)
Development process is pretty nice and simple. There is only one configuration file to write—JSON-formatted manifest file—and everything else is basically HTML and JavaScript. If you are using background page, debugging your extension is just like debugging any other site on the web using WebKit development tools. And there is also no need to pack the extension and restart your browser every time you want to try it out.
As a conclusion, here is the complete source code: tessienotifier. Consider it only as a code sample since I doubt that the actual extension could be of any use to anybody who is not working at Disqus.
