{"id":849,"date":"2010-03-17T12:27:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T12:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2010\/03\/17\/code-in-the-cloud-my-book-beta-is-available\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T12:27:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T12:27:34","slug":"code-in-the-cloud-my-book-beta-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/17\/code-in-the-cloud-my-book-beta-is-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Code in the Cloud: My Book Beta is Available!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been spending a lot of time working on a book.
\nInitially, I was working on a book made up of a collection of material from blog posts;
\nalong the way, I got diverted, and ended up writing a book about cloud computing using
\nGoogle’s AppEngine tools. The book isn’t finished, but my publisher, the Pragmatic Programmers,
\nhave a program that they call beta books<\/em>. Once a book is roughly 60% done, you
\ncan buy it at a discount, and download drafts electronically immediately. As more sections
\nget done, you can download each new version. And when the book is finally finished, you
\nget a final copy. <\/p>\n

We released the first beta version of the book today. You can look at
\nexcerpts, or buy a copy, by going to
\nthe books page<\/a>
\nat Pragmatic’s website.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in what cloud computing is, and how to build cloud applications – or if
\nyou just feel like doing something to support you friendly local math-blogger – please take
\na look, and consider getting a copy. I’m not going to harp about the book a lot on the blog; you’re
\nnot going to see a ton of posts that are thinly veiled advertisements, or updates tracking
\nsales, or anything like that. If there’s something that I would have written about anyway,
\nand it’s appropriate to mention the book, then I’ll feel free to mention it, but I won’t
\nwaste your time hyping it.<\/p>\n

In other news, here’s the main reason that things have been dead on this blog since
\nthe weekend:<\/p>\n

\"photo.jpeg\"<\/p>\n

That’s the view from my driveway as of monday morning. Over the weekend,
\nwe had one of the worst windstorms to hit New York in about thirty years. That
\nmess is two oak trees, each close to 2 meters in diameter, which came down on
\nour street on saturday. (If you look closely towards the right hand side, you
\ncan see the remains of my neighbors car.) The telephone pole in the picture
\nwas snapped not by getting hit by a tree, but simply by the wind. Since that
\npole had our electrical transformer, and those trees took out the wiring that
\nfed that transformer, we are (obviously) without electricity, internet, or
\n(most importantly) heat.<\/p>\n

Con-ed is promising to restore our electricity by friday. I’m not holding my
\nbreath.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to the happy stuff. The book exists in electronic form! Buy
\na copy for yourself, your friends, your neighbors, and your dog! We’ve got lots
\nof wonderful new expenses to deal with recovering from that storm! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been spending a lot of time working on a book. Initially, I was working on a book made up of a collection of material from blog posts; along the way, I got diverted, and ended up writing a book about cloud computing using Google’s AppEngine tools. The book isn’t finished, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,48,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goodmath","category-personal","category-programming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-dH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}