Programming Google App Engine, the book

Programming Google App Engine is a new book about Google's web application hosting service, to be published by O'Reilly Media, Inc., next year. Written by yours truly.

I've been on the App Engine team since February, as the primary author of the official documentation. I'm writing the book mostly in my spare time, but with the generous support of the team and of Google. App Engine is a rich and exciting subject, and I hope to use the inside perspective to give the book a worthy amount of depth and completeness. The official docs will continue to be my day job, and it'll take everything I have to keep up with all of the features they're adding in the coming months.

You can get early access to drafts of the book as I'm writing it with O'Reilly's "Rough Cuts" program. The first few chapters are already up. There's also a companion website with a blog and a feed—running on App Engine, naturally. If I'm not blogging here, hopefully I'm blogging there, or writing the book.

And no, they haven't told me what the animal is going to be. I'll let you know.