Tag Archives: perl

Dining Programmers

Sep 29 –

We as programmers dine upon a plethora of languages. Some of us choose to dine on rich and decadent languages such as Java, and .NET. Others choose the traditional elegance of languages such as C and Assembly. Some choose quick and light scripting languages such as PHP, Python, and Ruby.
The programming languages you dine on [...]

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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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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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