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Wednesday 31st October

It's been a while since I have updated but the bot has been under heavy development over the last week or so. I've added some new features:

  • Added !stats to give some info on a user. This is just the number of characters they have typed at the moment but I will add more things as I think of them.
  • Added !tell to give users a message. The bot will pass the message on when the user is next active. I want to add this to PM as well
  • Added !deal_with so that admins can get annoying people removed
  • Added !lkick to repeatedly kick persistant offenders
  • Added !unlkick just in case they talk the admin round!
  • Added a socket interface so that admins and other programs can communicate easily with the bot.
  • Added an authentication subsystem as I'm developing some features that require it

Sunday 7th October

  • Changed the open_xml() code to receive a second argument giving the type of file to be downloaded


Friday 5th October

  • Fixed a bug with the join channel function

The bot was set to only join the channel once a MoTD had been sucessfully received. This caused the bot to not attempt a join if the MoTD file was missing on the server. Set the bot to join on a MoTD or MoTD missing.

Sunday 5th August

  • Fixed a bug in !seen which was a careless regex
  • Did some more work on logging
  • Worked on a HTML template for the IRC logs

Saturday 4th August

  • Added !seen to show when users were last active
  • Started work on logging

Type !seen <nick> to show when that nick was last seen. Unfortunately, joining the channel does not yet count as being seen.

Sunday 29th July

  • Changed the !remind me syntax slights
  • Changed the !remind me output so that it gives the name of the user the reminder is for.
  • Changed the !tiny output so that it gives the name of the user that posted the URL.
  • Added a rot13 encrypter/decrypter

Type !rot13 <text> to encrypt or decrypt the text.

Saturday 28th July

Pushed out the latest release into #bobsbasement. This includes Tiny URL and Remind me features.

Thursday 26th July

  • Tidied up some of the code, which was a little more verbose than necessary. This is PERL after all!
  • Added a tinyurl converter

There is now a !tiny <url> feature. Type !tiny, followed by a url in a PM and the bot will post the tiny URL into the channel. Note: This has to be done in a private message to jam-dev. This feature is only available in the dev release at the moment.

Tuesday 24th July

  • Tidied up the whitespace as there were some issues with the nesting of some blocks of code which were making debugging an issue.
  • Rewrote the XML file retrieval for the BBC feeds as there was some duplication.
  • Moved the XML URLs into variables at the top of the code to make changes easier if the need arises.
  • Registered the bots with NickServ
  • Fixed a bug in the remind me script which was a poor regex causing issues with the reminder message.
  • Added the breaking news facility

Remind me is available in the dev bot. Syntax is "remind me in <seconds> <message>". You can have upto 20 reminders active at one time. I will change the syntax so that you can enter the time in more appropriate units (minutes, hours, etc).

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