Solid New IRC Features Deployed
This morning I finished up a lot of work I had started Friday afternoon about getting some useful features into the IRC interface for my ticker plants. I wanted to be able to get people something more than a proof-of-concept, but it was taking more time than I'd expected. I wanted to make it possible for any number of users to get the sampled stats I log to the Log4Cpp file. That meant I needed to modify the ticker plant itself to have a list of "interested parties" and then run through that sending the stats.
None of it was all that hard, but getting it all together in the responder and the ticker plant was just more time than I had to give on Friday evening. After I got that all working, I wanted to add a few more things: querying an instrument for it's messages... querying a family of instruments for their messages... restricting these to a certain message type... all things that I know the support guys are going to want to do.
I have to say that I'm pretty pleased with how all this is turning out. It's very easy to add these features into the responder and into the ticker plant. But then again, I've done this a few times, and I know the problems I faced in those previous incarnations, and what really worked well. This time I only had to do the "good" stuff, and it worked wonderfully.
I'm not nearly done, but I wanted to get these all in and pushed up to the development environment where people can play with them. That will get them thinking about what I can deliver for them, and since almost all this is for the support folks, I wanted to get them thinking about this as soon as possible.
Good morning.