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Wednesday, 22nd December 2010

HotQueue. A super-simple Python work queue using Redis. The API is neat, and makes clever use of generators for blocking consumption of queue items.

# 11:51 am / python, queues, redis, recovered, hotqueue

OpenCorporates (via) “The Open Database Of The Corporate World”—a URL for every UK company.

# 11:52 am / open-data, recovered

Is it a good idea to allocate URLs such as quora.com/username to users?

There’s an interesting discussion about this issue on this question: How do sites prevent vanity URLs from colliding with future features ?

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