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[Ben Sgro]

Hey Aaron,

Congrats on the book - got any promo copies you need to get rid of?

hehe,

- Ben

Aaron Greenspan wrote:
> 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
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