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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.
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@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. |
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.