I recently blogged about a nice hack presented by the Last.fm guys on the Future of Web Applications conference here in London.

The hack consists of having an IRC bot tell everyone on a certain channel that something in the development process has happened, i.e. ticket changes in Trac or commits to Subversion.

Richard Jones open sourced the hack and I’ve managed to get it to work on a project we’re working on. The trickiest part was to get Richard’s code for the Trac plugin to work.

I’ve created a Google project for the packaging of Richard’s Trac code: irccat-listener-trac-plugin

As for the title of this post: The bot in our development channel is called overlord (with a lowercase ‘o’).

We are happy to announce that a web application we’ve been working on over the past months has launched:

Walletproof is a personal finance web application. It’s meant to make keeping a budget as simple as humanly possible.

When a user is keeping a budget he/she can recommend deals to the Walletproof community, thus facilitating the sharing of knowledge on how to save money!

Check out the flash demo of Walletproof’s functionality and the Walletproof blog, where we keep users updated on all the latest news and features.

Please note that the development of Walletproof is an ongoing process and it is currently in beta version.

We’d love it if you tell us what you think!