By : Shabda Raaj

Brandon Bloom yesterday wrote an interesting post titled dropping Django. Despite a lot of hand waving(We needed a pragmatic template language to replace Django's idealistic one.), it raises some valid questions, so here is a solution to some of them.

No support for hierarchical url creation.

The simplest representation of nested urls I can think of is a nested tuple. Lets represent, the urls for a simple app by,

>>> tree_urls = ('', 'list',
...     ('edit/', 'edit', ('auto/', 'edit_auto')),
...     ('^add/', 'add'),
...     ('delete/', 'delete', ('hard/', 'delete_hard'))
...     )

Guess what, urls.py is just a python module which excepts a variable names urlpatterns.

Which means ...

By : rohit

In computer programming, COMEFROM (or COME FROM) is an obscure control flow
structure used in some programming languages, primarily as a joke.

I never liked using signals. Recently I was asked that, and has no answer, but a little thinking led me to this question. Aren't signals a little like COMEFROM. If yes, aren't they as bad as COMEFROM? If you do not know what a COMEFROM is, [wikipedia to the rescue](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM)

Some hypothetical code using COMEFROM, again from wikipedia,

from goto import comefrom, label
comefrom .repeat
name = raw_input('what is your ...

By : Shabda Raaj

In the glorious tradition of the internet, where we generalize from way too little data, I am going to tell you exactly why people start startups. Of course, I have no experience, on why people make this trade of security for adventure, apart from my own, and a few other very early stage startups. So yes, this is a personal story. This is why I, and everyone I know started a startup.

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn ...