Want to sneak out of the office for an afternoon at the beach, but you need to know if a scheduled build fails or an application crashes? In the book, we use SMS messaging to have your cell phone or pager tell you when it might be time to fold up your beach towel and head back to the office.

An SMS email address is your phone’s email address. If you send an email to your phone’s address, the email will be relayed as a text message to your phone or pager. But in the book’s examples I use a fake SMS email address for my current wireless carrier. (Yes, I’m sure you’d love to ring my cell phone when your build fails.)

So you’ve got a cell phone or a pager in your pocket that you never thought could be used as a software-monitoring device, if only you knew its SMS email address. No worries. NotePage, Inc. maintains a list of SMS email addresses for virtually all cell phones and pagers known to humankind.

See you at the beach!