Wave Hackathon

Eric Kidd — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:35:00 +0000

I’m currently attending the Wave hackathon at the Massachusetts GTUG. Here’s some code from a protocol-level Wave agent that I just demoed:

# Capitalize random words.
replace /\b(random|words)\b/i do |word|
  word.upcase
end

# Shorten URLs.
replace /\bhttp:\/\/([^ ]+)/  do |url| 
  $bitly.shorten(url).short_url
end

In keeping with the traditions of hackathons, this agent is horribly fragile. It only works with FedOne’s console-based wave client, and it doesn’t handle annotations correctly.

Some earlier—and more robust—wave-related projects:

Pick Several: A gadget which implements approval voting. Written using GWT. Includes a reusable library for writing GWT-based wave gadgets.
BugLinky: A robot which links bug numbers to a bug tracker. Includes a reusable library for simple pattern-matching, text replacement and annotation.

Many thanks to GTUG and to Google for organizing this hackathon!

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