Simon Willison’s Weblog

EveryBlock source code released. EveryBlock’s Knight Foundation grant required them to release the source code after two years, under the GPL. Lots of neat Django / PostgreSQL / GIS tricks to be found within.

# 8:01 pm / django, everyblock, gis, gpl, open-source, postgresql, python

Address Extractor. Running on App Engine, an address extractor web service using code from the EveryBlock open source release.

# 8:03 pm / addressextractor, appengine, everyblock, python

PubSub-over-Webhooks with RabbitHub. RabbitMQ, the Erlang-powered AMQP message queue, is growing an HTTP interface based on webhooks and PubSubHubBub.

# 8:22 pm / amqp, erlang, http, message-queues, pubsubhubbub, rabbitmq, webhooks