IRC Hacks

Credits

About the Author

Paul Mutton is a PhD student at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom, frantically trying to finish off his thesis at the same time as writing this book. He previously graduated with first-class honors in Computer Science, winning the IEE Institution Prize for being the best overall student in his department. He uses Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to collaborate with researchers in other countries and to talk to people in his office when they have their headphones on. In his remaining spare time, he uses his Sun Certified Java Programmer skills to develop all sorts of open source software on his personal web site (http://www.jibble.org). Some of his research has culminated in the creation of the popular PieSpy application (http://www.jibble.org/piespy), which infers and visualizes social networks on IRC and even appeared on slashdot once. He can normally be found jibbling around in #jibble and #irchacks on the freenode IRC network with the nickname Jibbler, or Paul on smaller networks.

Contributors

The following people contributed their writing, code, and inspiration to IRC Hacks:

• Alex North is married with children and works 9-5. In the hours outside of work he is immersed in the wonderful world of IRC. He can be found in this world using the nickname DeadEd and can usually be found haunting the QuakeNet network. He is a Java jibbler and certified game addict and has authored MatchEd and PPF, and he spends large amounts of time and fun playing with them on ...