I have been planning to release my IRC bot project as open source for quite a while now and the recently added twitter integration gave me the final push to actually do it. So now I am proud to announce the inital release of boticelli, a java / spring IRC bot/web application based on the martyr IRC library. Its mean to be easily configurable and extendable and ships with lots of plugins already included.
Available Plugins:
- Logging – log channel conversation and provide a web interface to browse and search them
- Seen – Remembers when a user last spoke in the channel
- FAQ – Manages a keyword list of FAQ keywords that are matched to a description. Useful to provide answers for reoccuring topics in the channel.
- AccountCreator?/Revoke/Grant – commands to automatically create accounts for the webapplication and to revoke / grant web app access rights (for ops)
- ServerPing? – plugin that detects broken connections and makes the bot reconnect.
- Say – plugin to let the bot say something or make it do something (a CTCP Action)
- Twitter – two way integration into twitter over a bot specific twitter account.
So if you’re into old-school IRC fun, head over to google code and grab yourself a copy.
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After again spending time to fix issues resulting from a collision of the yuicompressor jar and the normal rhino jar in one of my projects, I came up with a more radical solution:
- Download the source codes from yuicompressor and the corresponding rhino release
- Replace every occurance of “mozilla” with “yuizilla”
- PROFIT!
So now I have a version of the yuicompressor that works fine and does not conflict with the rhino version I also have in my project. And I don’t need any stupid jar class loaders or have to write stdin/stdout handling for some terribly slow external yuicompressor process. I can just use the classes
- com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.CssCompressor
- com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.JavaScriptCompressor
and be done with it. Hurray for fast dynamic server-side script and style compression!
In my never ending fight against teh wind-mills, I have produced two new open source projects that are somehow connected to each other.
First there is svenson which is a release of my own personal JSON generator / parser. The name is a result of a joke. When my boss asked me what was the unique characteristic of it, my first answer was: “It’s written by me!”. So the name comes from “Sven’s JSON”.
The answer was of course not totally serious. I wrote svenson because none of the JSON parsers out there seemed to have the right combination of being not too complicated yet flexible enough to work well in different scenarios. Being able to use a healthy mix of concrete typed java beans and dynamic map / list constructs seemed to be the best way to go, yet none of the JSON libraries out there seemed to go even near that direction.
See the svenson wiki at google code for an explanation of how svenson works.
The other project is called jcouchdb and is my attempt at writing a Java driver for couchdb. It is very much connected to svenson as it was the driving force for the parser part of svenson. it offers an API that lets you use all those nice svenson features with couchdb documents.
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update: link to couchdb
