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Entries tagged github in 2009

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Why I like Redis

I’ve been getting a lot of useful work done with Redis recently.

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djng—a Django powered microframework

djng is nearly two weeks old now, so it’s about time I wrote a bit about the project.

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Rate limiting with memcached

On Monday, several high profile “celebrity” Twitter accounts started spouting nonsense, the victims of stolen passwords. Wired has the full story—someone ran a dictionary attack against a Twitter staff member, discovered their password and used Twitter’s admin tools to reset the passwords on the accounts they wanted to steal.

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