First Post

This is the blog for notifier-general, a project to create a general purpose and customizable notification system for various data sources. Other systems like this exist(google text alerts, yahoo sports alerts) but they are not customizable, one has to choose from the alerts that are provided. With notifier-general we hope to provide a robust framework so that almost any (almost)arbitrary data source can be used- Sports scores, lotto numbers, international space station fly-bys etc. Besides just alerting on data sources we will incorporate a way for the system to set conditions on when to send a notification, such as over/under thresholds for numbers or some kind of string matching.