My Project Ideas for Google Wave

Posted by knorby on November 10, 2009 under Python, coding, doit, google, internet, wave | 3 Comments to Read

Silly:

  • fortune/doit – Implemented. See Wave Fortune. You can use it be adding wavefortune@appspot.com to your contacts. I mostly made this bot to satisfy my fortune lust, and to get more familiar with app engine and the wave bot api.
  • wompus/adventure – Not sure I am actually going to do this one. If I do, it will be the wompus. Basically, the problem to solve is effectively storing state for such games. Wompus is tiny, and the games are short, so it wouldn’t take much thinking. Adeventure/zork would require a lot more work, and I honestly don’t care that much.

Tools:

  • logging interface – It occurs to me that wave might work great in a situation where I think e-mail falls short now: data/msg dumps. I see this sort of thing at my jobs a lot. I get a log messages I generally don’t care about, and I filter them out, and as a result I sometimes miss something. A similar case is something like a bug tracker, where so many replies can be generated that the thread is easy to ignore. Centralization would help a lot I think, but again, I am not sure I care.
  • RPN calculator - Nothing really to explain here. Could do save the calculator’s state in past blips, and make them editable. The end result would be a collaborative calculator of sorts. Could be interesting.
  • something with jMol – Not too much thought here. When I was a student in the Computational Material Science group at ORNL, I ended up playing with jMol a bit from javascript. Some sort of gadget/bot combo could do some interesting stuff, but again, I don’t care.

I will post more about my thoughts on wave later on, as I have many mixed thoughts on it. Google has a lot to do, both on wave itself and extensions that they should provide. I am hesitant to work on large projects, as I don’t want to have google copy my work, or experience some odd situation with app engine. I don’t think anyone, google included, has any remote idea of what to expect from wave yet.

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  • David said,

    Sorry for being dense, but how do you get the bot to give you a fortune? I added it to my contacts, then to a new wave, but haven’t received any replies from it.

  • knorby said,

    Normally the bot gives you instructions upon adding it. For some reason, that isn’t working now, and I am guessing the problem is with wave. Try again with a new wave, and you might get better results. Here are the instructions:

    Hello! I can insert random fortunes, similar to the unix program.
    to use a specific library, type %%library%%
    to search for a particular topic, %%:topic%%
    to search for a topic in a particular fortune library, %%library:topic%%
    and to just put any fortune in, %%%%

    Available libraries: doit, farber, limerick, fortunes, zippy, startrek, unamerican, mommymommy

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