Tagged “irc”

1. Using HipChat through an IRC client with BitlBee December 2011

   Here at Treehouse Agency, we love IRC, as does the rest of the Drupal community. Still, IRC ports are often blocked, and not everyone is comfortable using IRC. We've recently been using HipChat to set up chat rooms for certain new clients.

   I already route most of my AIM and GTalk interaction through an IRC gateway using BitlBee, and I wanted to hook HipChat up to an IRC client as well. Here's a guide on how to do this.

   (Note that I was having trouble joining channels in my LimeChat last night as I was writing this up, but I might just be missing something. Try it out!)

2. Dude, Where's My Bot? October 2011

   Say what you will about node.js, but it is certainly an easy way to build IRC bots with the Jerk library.

   The PHP-based bot that runs in the Treehouse Agency IRC channels knows to respond to "Sweet!" with "Dude!" and vice versa. Brian McMurray said that he'd like to someday write a quick-and-dirty bot that would put our other bot into an infinite loop.

   I accepted that challenge, and 10 minutes later, the bot was done.

   The code is an example of how to build a bot that accepts environmental variables for configuration and otherwise does a pretty silly task.

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