Dr. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov Sculpture photo by Flickr user dbking. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989) was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. (wikipedia)

There is a small project that I’m working on with a friend, and since for years I’ve wanted to try Python…

I find two of the greatest assistants in learning and developing expertise in something are:

• Helping someone else (teaching).
• Using something else (compare).

Experimenting with something else helps me take the emotions and religion out of what I’m developing expertise in. It lends to a pragmatic foundation and helps be able to speak to another audience.

So while I work on this Python project, I won’t feel like I’m cheating on PHP and WordPress. Instead I’m continuing my learning about both and will be a better representative of both.