Less than ten days left on the SIS year of activities (following the same activity year as the Student union as a whole makes us 1st of July to 31st of June) and it’s time to uncover a fork!
Almost a year ago I posted a ticket to the tracker about getting some kind of paste box application that we could use to share code instead of cluttering the wiki and dropping text bombs in the IRC channel. The point of having our own was that we could probably then connect it to the IRC bot used in the channel and make it announce all new pastes done. Today I finished the first fork of the pastebin code written in PHP and MySQL. It’s available via our mercurial repository as well as at bitbucket. A wiki page with some upcoming ideas and thoughts can be found in the SIS Skunkworks wiki (Swedish only) as usual.
Coming up end of June/early July is the bridge between pastebin and rbot as a seperate rbot plugin project as well as a twitter connection as part of the pastebin project (serving as a example of how to do the connection, there are none of those for the time being).
The install instructions for the pastebin is pretty straight forward in the repository, read the INSTALL file. For adding a watcher see the default.config.php file. In general it’s as easy as adding a executable file in lib/watcher/ that takes the following command line options: url, author and excerpt – in that particular order. Add the connection in you config file and you are good to go.
Housing portal service stop
Update!
There are still some issues remaining with the housing portal and we are working as fast as we can. We have prolonged the deadline until the 4th of August.
For those of you trying to access the housing portal, this service will be down due to maintenance from the 23rd of July until the 30th of July.We apologise for any problems this might cause.