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