[DFW.pm] IRC bots in Perl tomorrow!

[John Dexter]

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.

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> 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 at 7pm.  Some food afterwards
> at a local eatery.
>
>
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