As some of you know, I’ve been working on a rewrite of SimpleIRC. SimpleIRC is a framework of sorts for IRC client connections. The core of it is finished and can be used, but I’m also working on a bot for it that will replace the current code used for my bot on irc.freenode.net, miniE. I also plan on extending work to include actual clients that include curses, gtk, qt3 and qt4.

Right now I’ve had some success in getting the bot to connect and respond to commands. All I need to get done at this point is to finalize command handling and access levels, then I can continue to develop any modules needed. I’ll probably bring the new code online as miniE once I get some of the neccisary commands that some of the channels he is in require. One module that I will complete before bringing the new code online is the factoids module. I will change some of the factoids functionality by enabling commands to be called throught he factoids module if no factoid exists under the specified text. This will enable people to start “talking to” the bot.

I’m also looking for reccomendations of new modules to add to miniE. I’m alread planning on supporting the current list (join #php-oop on freenode and use the command `help to see all commands) and a few new ones already planned. One of them is a bartender module, another will be a current weather lookup by area code. So if any of you have any suggestions, just leave them here or e-mail me and I’ll take it into consideration!