simplegeo's python-oauth2
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on July 18, 2010
simplegeo’s python-oauth2. The Python OAuth library scene is frighteningly complicated at the moment. This seems to be the most actively maintained, and the readme includes working example code for talking to the Twitter API (including integration with Django auth).
Rate limiting with memcached
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on January 7, 2009
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.
The Twitter incident got me thinking about rate limiting ...
A quote from Me
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on July 7, 2008
It looks like the first ever Django conference will take place in early September in the San Francisco bay area.
- Me



