What's it worth to do great work if you can't live in a great city? Amazon's Development Center in Cape Town, South Africa is situated in the heart of the Mother City, and is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and Table Mountain - you can't get better views. Combine this with never-ending beaches and sunny weather and you have the perfect work and play environment.
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The code listing are "Program Listing" sections in Lyx (http://www.lyx.org). Unfortunately Elyxer (http://www.nongnu.org/elyxer/), the Lyx->HTML converter, doesn't yet understand these sections and so skips them. I'm going to patch it to allow for these, and I'll also provide a PDF build next to the HTML export.
In my first (now trashed) version of the book I had started writing an introduction, but it got long-winded and verbose because I didn't know what I was introducing! Better to add the introduction in at the end, as you've mentioned :)
My name is Luke Venediger, I'm the author of Erlang for Skeptics. Thanks for visiting my book and for the comments. It's very much a work in progress and has a long way to go, but I'm excited about getting the community involved early on. I'm working on a public feedback mechanism, but for now please post feedback below this comment.
I've been using Google Wave to build the plot and outline, together with my friends TheColonial (http://buffered.io/) and StackingIt (http://www.blog.stackingit.com/). Wave rocks as a real-time review system, and has definitely improved the quality of my book.
I'll have a more substantial website up in the next week or so that will have a comments section and an RSS feed for updates. In the mean time you can follow @erlangforskeptics or myself @lukevenediger on twitter.
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