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Last.fm hack presented on FOWA: IRCCat

In my last post I mentioned a hack that was featured in a presentation made by Matthew Ogle and Anil Bawa-Cavia of Last.fm at The Future of Web Apps conference last week. Anil has blogged about the presentation and the hack which has just been open sourced by their CTO, Richard Jones.

The hack is basically an IRC bot, called IRCCat (as in cat to IRC), that listens to messages on some port and sends them to an IRC channel the developers are logged onto. This can be used to make commits to Subversion, ticket changes on Trac or any other event in a development environment become part of a chat conversation.

Now that IRCcat has been open sourced, implementing this for Capistrano deploys will be very straight forward.

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2 Responses to “Last.fm hack presented on FOWA: IRCCat”

  1. Rails Deployment Says:
    February 28th, 2007 at 9:04 pm

    Chatty Capistrano…

    Snailbyte draw attention to a nice little hack which listens out on a port and then sends any messages on to an IRC channel - where hopefully there’s someone listening.
    One suggested use is to watch Capistrano deployments. Get it here.
    ……

  2. Trac plugin for IRCCat -- The Snailbyte Weblog Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 12:19 pm

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