Start adding the source code, borrowed a bit of the WebRequest code from my other projects

source/Proggitbot.cs

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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Net;
+
+using Meebey.SmartIrc4net;
+
+namespace Proggitbot
+{
+	public class Proggitbot
+	{
+		#region "Member Variables"
+		private const string jsonUrl = "http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/.json";
+		#endregion
+		#region "Public Static Methods"
+		public static void Main(string[] args)
+		{
+			Console.WriteLine("Proggitbot!");
+		}
+		#endregion
+
+		#region "Internal Methods"
+		internal string FetchJson(string fullUrl)
+		{
+			HttpWebRequest request = null;
+			HttpWebResponse response = null;
+			StreamReader reader = null;
+
+			try
+			{
+				request = WebRequest.Create(fullUrl) as HttpWebRequest;
+				request.UserAgent = "Proggitbot";
+
+				if (request == null)
+				{
+					return null;
+				}
+
+				using (response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
+				{
+					if ( (response == null) || (!request.HaveResponse) )
+					{
+						return null;
+					}
+
+					reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
+					return reader.ReadToEnd();
+				}
+			}
+			catch (WebException exc)
+			{
+				if (exc == null)
+				{
+					return null;
+				}
+
+				using (HttpWebResponse errorResponse = exc.Response as HttpWebResponse)
+				{
+					if (errorResponse == null)
+					{
+						/*
+						 * If we don't have an error response, that means we likely
+						 * have a SocketException from the underlying layer, and we 
+						 * should likely propogate that up
+						 */
+						throw;
+					}
+					Console.WriteLine("The server returned \"{0}\", status {1}",
+							errorResponse.StatusDescription, errorResponse.StatusCode);
+				}
+			}
+			return null;
+		}
+		#endregion
+	}
+}