Bruinbot is a screen name I registered for AIM. It is running a perl script connecting a perl-implementation of the Eliza bot with a Net:AIM package letting me script into the AIM TOC protocol.

Hmm.. that was pretty intense, eh? Well, someday I'll get to writing a better description.

News:

[4/28/01]	I have a sourceforge page!! check it out: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/bruinbot :)
[5/1/01]	preliminary parser support added. Now I have to learn regexps to interface it :) and the code is a mess! I need to clean it up more (inserting comments didn't solve everything)
[6/24/01]	eh heh heh.. hi there... Well, I'm out for summer now, and hopefully i can donate much more time to bruinbot. I have a ton of great ideas that will need all summer to implement, and need a lot more knowledge of Perl to do. I have basically started to OOP all of it, so that is a very big step, but will allow for a lot more expandibility, and maybe even hot-swapping modules! schweet! and maybe, one day, a Tk interface! :-D
[6/30/01]	Well, I've got more database integration setup... i made a few more tables, and have a rough idea as how to datamine :) I got more references and advanced hashes to work, so i am very happy about that. I'm writing as I watch Linux update to redhat 7.1, and then i will be securing it, to prevent from more hacking >:o.
[7/6/01]	Wow, a lot has changed... I am sitting in Starbucks for this update, and I inserted a parser, but have yet to test it, as I prefer Perl on a *NIX machine, rather than win32, plus, connecting to the AOL server would be easier than a bunch of testbeds, eh? The parser works by reading a config file, that holds a regexp and an associated package. When the regexp evaluates to true, the package's convo_handler sub is called, and the returned hash is dealt with in Bruinbot::AIM::on_im.
[8/5/01]	Eh heh heh... man I am good with these updates. Well, i have been busy with a seperate project... a MySQL database plus some perl CGI scripts to access the data. I am still waiting on a nice parser from another developer on the project, but he is just as busy, so there hasn't been much development recently. I have checked into some other bots, namely shear and ichatbot.. and have some fresh ideas. Also, my linux box is doing well, and with a new BIOS revision on my laptop, things are going well. :)

Some of BruinBot's features:

• Weather for US zip codes
• Stocks (to be added still... do I *really* want to mirror a stock site? blah)
• Surf reports? ski reports?
• YOU DECIDE! tell me what you want, and we'll see if it's possible. Come on, I dare ya! EMAIL ME

• storing and delivery of messages, for users to queue messages to be sent when the target signs on.
  • UPDATE: I have found a bot that does this! iChatbot does such a thing.. but upon looking at his design, and seeing that so many people are using that service that there are "spybots" online to watch for the ton of buddies, this seems a bit of a hassle, and not focused on the original intent of the iRover.
• modularizing the code, and splitting it up into separate files
  • UPDATE: I'm getting there... :)
• more pickup lines, more fortunes ;)
• finish writing the yo_mamma module ;) (guess what that does)

Do YOU have any cool ideas for bruinbot? send me some mail, and I'll see what I can do! email me

Data-bots are getting popular...so perhaps i just want to make this a party bot? to tell jokes, etc? i don't know.. perhaps a linux tool, where a user with an acct on the box can check local mail, etc?

Last Modified: Sunday, August 05, 2001