By this time, I'm several weeks into the project and it's time to get you all caught up - let's see if I can break this down into digestable bites.

(Btw, don't expect it to you take this long - this isn't an officially sanctioned work project for me, so ...

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This is most likely going to be at least a three-parter, and I'm not getting into any code samples in this first one. I just wanted to give some background into the project I'm working on, so feel free to skip ahead.

As of this writing, I'm working at a ...

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I'm working on a pretty massive test harness for a custom framework extension - I won't bore anyone with the details, but I'm using PHPUnit, and for our particular implementation I needed to generate large numbers of XML files to seed a test database with about 80 tables. Two things ...

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The question has been raised on many occasions: Why there aren't more women in the Python community, or even the programming community at large?

I have at least one answer: It's hard to trust that our colleagues are going to treat us as equals.

I'd like to be able to ...

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This is about a month late, but I wanted to make some mention of it before too much time has passed.

In March, the news broke that Barbara Liskov was the winner of this year's Turing Award.

You may never have heard of the Turing Award, or indeed of ...

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