Hello Perl bloggers,

I have released my first module: POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::Vim::Tips, a plugin for the IRC client module POE::Component::IRC.

When a user types !vimtip (or !vimtips) in a channel that your bot has joined, my plugin will scrape the first page of tweets from the Vim Tips Twitter feed and reply back with a "random" tip from that list.

Example:

curtis !vimtip
vimbot curtis: ggguG will lower case the entire file (also known as the Jerry Yang treatment). http://is…