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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I love that virtual terminal. It's very
      shiny. How did you get the syntax highlighting?<br>
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      John Fields wrote:<br>
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      <p dir="ltr">That is entirely cromulent code!<br>
        (I just added cromulent to my phone's dictionary).</p>
      <p dir="ltr">Looking forward to playing with this, I think I
        misunderstood the scope of POE!<br>
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      <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 28, 2013 6:07 PM, "Tommy Butler"
        <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
          href="mailto:dfwpm@internetalias.net">dfwpm@internetalias.net</a>>
        wrote:<br type="attribution">
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            <div><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Just for fun
                I turned my 22<b>*</b> line IRC greeter bot into a 52
                line IRC spellchecker bot (screenshot below).  <br>
                <br>
                This bot is currently logged into <a
                  moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://irc.perl.org"
                  target="_blank">irc.perl.org</a> taking requests in
                the #bot-test channel.<br>
                <br>
              </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                  face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Like greeter bot,
                  spellchecker bot is <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="https://github.com/dfwperl/dfwbot/blob/master/dfw_spellerbot.pl"
                    target="_blank">in the DFW Perl Mongers irc bot repo
                    on github.<br>
                  </a></font><br>
                <small><i> <big><b>*</b><font color="#666666">line
                        counts do not include comment lines</font></big></i></small><br>
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                --Tommy Butler<br>
                <br>
                On 10/27/2013 05:21 PM, Tommy Butler wrote:<br>
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              <div><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">So I <a
                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="https://github.com/dfwperl/dfwbot"
                    target="_blank">wrote an irc bot</a>, tested it out
                  several times, and put it up on github in all of 2
                  hours this afternoon.  It's built on <a
                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Bot::BasicBot"
                    target="_blank">Bot::BasicBot</a>.  Bot::BasicBot is
                  *gasp* built on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="https://metacpan.org/pod/POE" target="_blank">POE</a>. 
                  <i><b>This bot is neat and I think this would be very
                      fun to extend.</b></i><br>
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                  I would love play around with this concept together --
                  to use git/github to clone, fork, and hack together
                  our own individual bots and try them out in real time
                  together at the next meeting.  We could make them talk
                  to each other, do spell checks, wolfram alpha lookups,
                  shorten URLs, fetch stock performance stats, or any
                  number of things.<br>
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                  What do you think?  Feel free to disagree.<br>
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                  --Tommy Butler<br>
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                  On 10/25/2013 03:24 PM, John Fields wrote:<br>
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                <p dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Prolly

                    POE.  And yes using an event-driven manager
                    framework to call a IRC module is probably over
                    kill.</font></p>
                <p dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">:)</font></p>
                <div class="gmail_quote"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
                    sans-serif">On Oct 25, 2013 3:21 PM, "Stephen Wylie"
                    <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:stev-o@u.northwestern.edu"
                      target="_blank">stev-o@u.northwestern.edu</a>>
                    wrote:<br type="attribution">
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                    <div dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
                        sans-serif">AOE... are you talking ATA over
                        Ethernet?  Age of Empires?  The secret of the
                        Alpha Phi fraternity?</font>
                      <div><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
                        </font> </div>
                      <div><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Clueless

                          & floundering on Google,</font></div>
                      <div><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Stephen</font></div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="gmail_extra"> <font face="Helvetica,
                        Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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                      <div class="gmail_quote"><font face="Helvetica,
                          Arial, sans-serif">On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at
                          2:01 PM, A.J. Maurin <span dir="ltr"><<a
                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="mailto:coyo@darkdna.net"
                              target="_blank">coyo@darkdna.net</a>></span>
                          wrote:<br>
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                              face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Well
                              BASHing together an IRC bot out of netcat
                              and quick-and-dirty oneliners of sed and
                              awk are easy for me, because I'm used to
                              it.<br>
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                              sans-serif"><br>
                              Anything beyond a quick one-liner of Perl
                              looks daunting to me.<br>
                            </font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
                              sans-serif"><br>
                              I dislike using standard libraries. To me,
                              it's learning how to use other people's
                              code. Reinventing the wheel my butt.</font>
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                                <div><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
                                    sans-serif">On 10/23/2013 12:00 PM,
                                    John Fields wrote:<br>
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                                  <p dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica,
                                      Arial, sans-serif">Shaun, <a
                                        moz-do-not-send="true">Net::IRC</a>
                                      is deprecated. I KNOW!  Says try
                                      Bot::BasicBot </font></p>
                                  <p dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica,
                                      Arial, sans-serif">Alex, look at
                                      this BasicBot page and let us know
                                      how difficult it looks!  Not very
                                      compared to BASHing it out. :)</font></p>
                                  <p dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica,
                                      Arial, sans-serif"><a
                                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                                        href="http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2008/02/25/writing-an-irc-bot/"
                                        target="_blank">http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2008/02/25/writing-an-irc-bot/</a></font></p>
                                  <p dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica,
                                      Arial, sans-serif">Writing an IRC
                                      bot from scratch in the next
                                      Monger meeting sounds like fun. 
                                      We can review the random password
                                      generator code progress too. What
                                      say Ye?  (Futurama Bot
                                      reference... Hehehe)</font></p>
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                                      face="Helvetica, Arial,
                                      sans-serif">On Oct 20, 2013 4:53
                                      PM, "A.J. Maurin" <<a
                                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                                        href="mailto:coyo@darkdna.net"
                                        target="_blank">coyo@darkdna.net</a>>

                                      wrote:<br type="attribution">
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                                        face="Helvetica, Arial,
                                        sans-serif"> ^_^<br>
                                      </font> <font face="Helvetica,
                                        Arial, sans-serif"><br>
                                        I'm sad that it isn't every
                                        week, but I suppose there's a
                                        lot more that at Dallas
                                        Makerspace than Hump Day
                                        Mongering.<br>
                                      </font> <font face="Helvetica,
                                        Arial, sans-serif"><br>
                                        Yeah, people said I was insane
                                        for writing that script, a Bash
                                        shell script IRC bot that used
                                        netcat.<br>
                                      </font> <font face="Helvetica,
                                        Arial, sans-serif"><br>
                                        My response was "meow." I can't
                                        believe I lost that thumbdrive.<br>
                                      </font> <font face="Helvetica,
                                        Arial, sans-serif"><br>
                                        On 10/20/2013 11:30 AM, Tommy
                                        Butler wrote:<br>
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                                          face="Helvetica, Arial,
                                          sans-serif"> We hold Perl
                                          Mongers on the second
                                          Wednesday of each month, so we
                                          will meet next on 11/13/13. It
                                          generally works out to be
                                          somewhere around the hump day
                                          of each month ;-)<br>
                                        </font> <font face="Helvetica,
                                          Arial, sans-serif"><br>
                                          The IRC bot script that's
                                          being discussed sounds like
                                          lots of fun!</font><br>
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