This is the first of a series of posts detailing some cool developer tools that I learned as a result of a talk given by Yahoo developer Christian Heilmann.

Yahoo seem to be coming out with some great tools at the moment but they do not seem to be promoting them to the developer community. Most of the developers I have talked to have not heard about the tools I am going to describe.

The first one I wanted to talk about is the YQL Auto Tagger.

… let’s be honest tagging blog posts, articles, assets etc is a very boring exercise. The amount of times I have had to explain to clients about how to tag their documents correctly is never ending. This tool goes some way towards helping people overcome this issue.

At the moment the YQL tagger is a small GitHub project but it could grow to become a very elegant solution to this tagging problem. How well it works at the moment is a matter of opinion.
All you have to do is enter some text in a text area or WYSIWYG and then move your mouse out of the box and the tags automatically appear in the input box below.

You can see a demo of it in action here.

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