If you’re doing any work with the HipChat API you may want to check out this handy node.js wrapper from TBWA Worldwide / Pilot developer Charlton Roberts. We’re currently using it fire off deployments and other fun stuff directly from our HipChat room.
You can find it on GitHub and npm:
https://github.com/charltoons/hipchatter
https://npmjs.org/package/hipchatter
Off topic but still helpful…
Like many devs I make use of a variety of open source software, package management tools, etc – all of which need to be updated on a regular basis to stay up-to-date with the most recent releases.
Rather than manage each one individually, a simple alias in your ~/.profile comes in very handy:
Notes:
Then you can simply invoke it like so…
Of course if you need to handle specific versions of a port or gem individually, this won’t work for you. But if you just want to be current on everything, this will do the trick.
