Simon Willison’s Weblog

Rabbits and warrens. Handy tutorial introduction to using RabbitMQ and AMQP with Python. 9:13 am

Building sites around social objects. Jyri Engeström’s concept of “social objects” is a genuinely useful new way to talk about social web sites. 9:16 am

Finding similar items with Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Python, and Hadoop streaming. Tutorial for running Hadoop jobs on Elastic MapReduce using Python and the 2005 Audioscrobbler dataset. 9:19 am