Gregory's ServerThe book will be a developer guide that will help programmers connect existing software to the social web, as well as making brand new social applications. Currently, developers depend on reading the specifications themselves, forum posts, wiki pages, blog posts, and other content spread across the Web. I hope that a single book with practical step-by-step information will make learning about and building with ActivityPub easier.
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 I’ll update my progress here. I have a pretty tight schedule, but I’ve rearranged some of my commitments like graduate school to accommodate the work. (I’ll be getting credits from Georgia Tech towards my CS degree for doing this book — a nice bonus!) This is the first book I’ve written, and it’s going to require working code for examples, so there will be a lot of learning and work to do. But I’m confident this will be a step forward. @dannotdaniel @evan This is what I want to know. I presume some kind of elephant, but that would presume a focus on Mastodon?   @evan That is so awesome, Evan! I've written several books, including a short one for O'Reilly, and I wish you all the best. It can be a really tough process, but it *is* awesome to see it in print! Thanks for taking this on. It will be great to have a book out helping people do more with ActivityPub.  @evan who is your editor? :) I too had a great time writing the CouchDB book :) Well, you have a very probable buyer here. I find it rather difficult to find easy to digest material for programmers, who are interested in, but not fully involved in ActivityPub, say, for creating APIs or developing small apps surrounding it. Great project. I especially love the Cookbook series from O'Reilly.  @evan Sounds great, let us know if you need any reviews or feedback on any chapters from the community. @evan Congratulations and thank you for taking the time to do this for the public! Having a developer guide is truly something useful.  @evan I’m personally excited to read it, and use it. Playing around with implementing the spec in a few random tools (I.e., creating a follower graph for my account), I concur a better source of practical information would be huge. |
O’Reilly is the best programming book publisher, hands down. I have a dozen O’Reilly titles on my shelf, all with the famous engraved animal covers, and I use them regularly. I appreciate that the O’Reilly team sees the potential for an ActivityPub book. I have had a great experience with the editors so far.