Ted Leung on the air
Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
  Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
   Tue, 23 Dec 2003   
      
      
  
  
  
    My visit to #joiito
    
   
    
     Today I paid my first visit to #joiito. At ApacheCon, Mark Pilgrim and Joe Gregorio told me that #joiito was the place to be.  It's been on my list for a while, but I just didn't have time.  So anyway, I stopped in, to see what the fuss  was all about.  I ran into Mark and Joe, so that was good.  jeanniecool showed me the joibot ropes, and Maniac greeted me.  Not bad for a first day in a channel of mostly strangers.
The whole IRC bot thing is new to me -- I know bots have been around forever, but I haven't done much IRC until this year, and I'm still climbing the learning curve.  I wish that I could find a passable IRC client for OS X.  I discovered akwairc and ircle today, so maybe I'll get around to trying them in the next few days.
    
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       On IRC clients for OS X -- I like the native port of X-Chat, X Chat Aqua http://xchataqua.sourceforge.net/
-Brian
Posted by Brian McCallister at Wed Dec 24 05:27:10 2003
      
      -Brian
Posted by Brian McCallister at Wed Dec 24 05:27:10 2003
       
       
       I'm using XChatAqua now -- there's an earlier post on it in my blog.  My big gripes with it regard notification -- I want it to do something when my current nick is addressed in a channel.  All it can do now is beep indiscriminately.  I was going to write a Python script that would call out to and use the speech engine to say the name of the channel where I was being addressed, but the Python plugin is broken.  It's still broken in the version of XChatAqua that came out yesterday, but there's a note in the TBD file of the source distribution that  says a new python plugin is up for the next release.  So maybe this will all get fixed soon...
Posted by Ted Leung at Wed Dec 24 16:37:30 2003
      
      Posted by Ted Leung at Wed Dec 24 16:37:30 2003
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