NYCPHP Meetup

[Aaron Greenspan]

Hello,

I realize this is blatant self-promotion, but hopefully it won't ruin 
anyone's day...

In case anyone is interested, I've recently published a book that's 
pretty directly related to PHP, as well as issues of  programming, 
intellectual property, and computer security and privacy. It's called 
"Authoritas: One Student's Harvard Admissions and the Founding of the 
Facebook Era," and it talks about the complex and mostly unknown story 
of Facebook's birth. As you may know, Facebook is based on PHP and 
MySQL, as was houseSYSTEM's Universal Face Book, the site that preceded 
it at Harvard.

The book has a site here:

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/authoritas.html

and if you're interested in reading the first few pages, you can on the 
Interbook site for it here:

http://www.thinkpress.com/authoritas/index.html

The Interbook site also features the actual documents used to write the 
book (which are linked page-by-page) such as e-mails and IMs with Mark 
Zuckerberg, Facebook, Inc.'s present CEO, Apache logs, letters to and 
from the Harvard administration, etc.

Both sites are written in PHP (of course!) on the Lampshade framework. 
If you want, you can buy the book through any of the places listed on 
the Order page.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Aaron

Aaron Greenspan
President & CEO
Think Computer Corporation

http://www.thinkcomputer.com