Real book!

I received a copy of the real thing this morning, express-mailed from the publisher:

It even has fully operational pages with ink on them!

It should start hitting shelves in the next week or two! I don't know where Amazon.com's shipping schedule fits in, but I would expect around the same time.

Net access down again

As I write this, from the conference in San Francisco, the Time Warner Cable business access has remained down for about 20 hours. After talking with customer support, it apparently only went down for a few seconds, however their hardware requires that you unplug the modem and attached router, then plug them back in, before anything will work again.

This unplugging and re-plugging gets very difficult when five hours away by jet (and about 60 hours away by planned travel).

So, here I sit and wait to hear back from someone who has the keys to the place so I can walk her through un/re-plugging the applicable boxes in the office, as I wonder why this only seems to happen when I travel...

Edited to add: finally back up. Looks like the router behind the connection went toes up for some reason...that sucked. Time Warner had a ton of outages throughout Austin when this all started, who knows why the router flipped out, though.

Reviewers and plugging the book

Out in San Francisco for the Zend Conference, and I have two people lined up for reviewing the book. One of the reviews should make it up on Zend's Developer Zone if all goes well!

To anyone attending the conference: I have a bound manuscript with me if you want to flip through to take a look. I'll try to keep it out and noticeable so you'll have an easier time spotting me. I also have put out a few piles of flyers in the lobby giving you a 35% discount on the book (it also has the finalized table of contents on the back).

Advanced Ajax goes to the UK

As my newly-wedded friend, Mutant, has found and brought to my attention: Advanced Ajax: Architecture, Best Practices and Open Ajax now appears on Amazon.co.uk! It has a price of £34.19, which doesn't quite mesh up with the US price of $39.99, but it at least makes me happy to see it become available to those not in the States.