Blog of Ortz

Finally got over a little hump recently with OrtzIRC.

I decided to dump ADO.NET and thus SQLite. I like SQLite, just not ADO.NET.

IRC settings are now stored as object and serialized to XML. Here’s an example.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<EpicServerList>
  <Network Name="Gamesurge">
    <Server Description="Randoms" Url="irc.gamesurge.net" Ports="6667" />
    <Server Description="Burstfire" Url="Burstfire.UK.EU.GameSurge.net" Ports="6667" />
  </Network>
  <Network Name="Freenode">
    <Server Description="Random" Url="chat.freenode.net" Ports="6667" />
  </Network>
</EpicServerList>

I’ll probably make a tool that will parse the settings from your current IRC client and build an XML file with this schema. What I’m hoping to eventually have is a Creative Commons directory of IRC networks/servers.