While checking my RSS feeds, I came across a really interesting post at the Panic blog In it they described how they came up with a status board to keep track of their projects, the number of bugs filed and resolved, and other details. I've selected a quote from the blog listing what is on display in the status board displayed here:

The idea quickly grew beyond "Project Status", and has become a hub of all sorts of internal Panic information. What you're actually looking at is an internal-only webpage that updates frequently using AJAX which shows:

• E-Mail Queue - number of messages / number of days.
• Project Status - sorry for the heavy censorship - you know how it is!
  
• Important Countdowns
  
• Revenue - comparing yesterday to the day before, not so insightful (yet).
  
• Live Tri-Met Bus Arrivals - when it's time to go home!
  
• The Panic Calendar
  
• Employee Twitter Messages
  
• Any @Panic Twitter Messages - i.e., be nice! They go on our screen!

[From Panic Blog - The Panic Status Board]

Now, this is really clever and struck a chord, as you can see from the comments thread. If you want the code for rolling your own, well, the Panic folks haven't released it, but they give you hints, such as using CSS3, and what to get as the display screen. Not to be deterred, someone has already set up a project titled Statusarchy in an effort to roll their own version. I'm sure a ColdFusion version could be rolled as well. I'm not going to do this because I don't have an office with a budget large enough to buy this really cool display, and a team working on several projects. But I'm sure some of you will be inspired to roll your own!