Category Archives: yahoo

Finding Local Twitter Trends

Jul 14

Mining Twitter for Trends in a Geographic Area
Local or Targeted trends on Twitter is not something that Twitter provides. So I decided to create my own solution. For this project I used Perl, Twitter API via Net::Twitter, Yahoo Term Extraction Service, and SQLite3 to store data. This technique is a quick and dirty way [...]

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7 Developer Tools That Rock

May 20

with a windows .net slant of course… I am plugging your stack Microsoft / Yahoo / Firefox give me money!
Firebug, why don’t you have firebug. Ever try to debug javascript, css, or html stuff. Firebug is nice, it’s an add-on for Firefox. It allows you to debug almost every section of front [...]

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About Ian Lintner


I am a software developer, mostly web,  in Des Moines, Iowa. I take a very opinionated stand concerning development, you will never regret a simple design or architecture. My education was at Drake University in Biology and Computer Science. Offline I am recently married to my wife Heather. I try my hand at many hobbies currently I am gardening till the snow comes in.



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