This week is something of a gimme for me, given that I've already done app development against the Twitter API. For the sake of something simple and accessible, I opted to revise my earlier Iron Man post on Monitoring Hashtags with Perl and Net::Twitter to make use of Twitter::TagGrep and call that my DIC 52 Weeks of Code entry for this week:

Marc Mims has recently taken over maintainership of Net::Twitter and rebuilt it on top of Moose. This has been a cause of much concern for me, as it does not appear that the non-Moose Net::Twitter::Lite will meet my needs. Yesterday's Net::Twitter Roadmap post proved quite reassuring in that regard, but did not fully address my concerns. As Marc's blog does not appear to support comments, I am posting my thoughts on it here.

I've taken an interest in writing some customized interface code to give me better control over my twitter feed and this program is my first move in that direction. Its basic function is to watch for tweets from the people you follow which contain tags from a list of tags that interest you.