IRC

The secret of effective logging is to work out what you want to log and how people can access the information. This provides some quite creative ideas that go beyond the simple task of merely logging every message to a file. A bot that mon...

Getting a hold of your friends on IRC is difficult if you don't know if they are present and paying attention. Many people leave their IRC clients online all the time and do not set their Away status when they are absent, either on purpose or...

Often, useful URLs are mentioned on a channel, and you cannot visit them straightaway but would like to check them out later. Perhaps you remember someone mentioning the URL of a really cool page containing various useful IRC hacks, but you j...

Blogging has taken the Internet by storm in recent years, and why should your IRC channel be left out? Most channels see people regularly paste URLs for the entertainment and information of those present, so why not collect them and stick them ...

When someone joins the channel it sits on, the bot sends her the last 10 events that occurred there via private message. Many people set up their clients to join multiple channels on startup. As the history is sent via private message, you ma...