[DFW.pm] IRC bots in Perl tomorrow!

[Stuart A Johnston]

Generally speaking, you'd want to call srand after the fork. I don't 
know what would be the POE equivalent of that though.

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/srand.html

Another option would be to use one of the Random modules on cpan.


On 11/14/2013 05:09 PM, John Dexter wrote:
> So, I've been a long time lurker on the DFW.pm mailing list and decided
> to go ahead and get active by attending last night's meeting.  Of
> course, at the last minute I got saddled with an emergency database
> restore for work, so I was unable to attend.
>
> I did want to join in on the IRC bot fun, so I whipped up a little
> plugin of my own, that I call "Discuss".  Hate sitting in a dead IRC
> channel?  This will let you ask the bot for discussion topics based on
> blog posts at blogs.perl.org <http://blogs.perl.org>.
>
> I'm running into an issue though.  I'm using the rand() function to let
> the bot pick random posts and random return phrases, but it doesn't seem
> to be changing after the initial request.  My guess is that this is an
> issue with POE and the rand numbers are only generated once at compile
> time, so subsequent calls to the subroutine do not produce different
> results.  Anyone know how to get around that?  Or if that is even the issue?
>
> https://github.com/PsyDefect/dfwbot/blob/master/DFWpm/BotPlugin/Discuss.pm
>
> Sincerely,
>
> John Dexter
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Coyo <coyo at darkdna.net
> <mailto:coyo at darkdna.net>> wrote:
>
>     I can't believe it's my birthday already.
>
>     I feel so oooooooooooooold.
>
>     My birthday is tomorrow, the 13th. A hump day.
>
>     I hope that's an omen.
>
>
>
>     On 11/12/2013 04:42 PM, John Fields wrote:
>>
>>     2nd Wed is huuuummmpppddaaaayyy. :)
>>
>>     We will be running some home made bots and covering different ways
>>     to run them under Linux.  Maybe add a stats page, or a tabulated
>>     log of results?  Bring your ideas and "what ifs".
>>
>>     As usual it is at the dallasmakerspace.org
>>     <http://dallasmakerspace.org> at 7pm.  Some food afterwards at a
>>     local eatery.
>>
>>
>
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