{"id":747,"date":"2012-09-28T19:36:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T19:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gusclass.com\/blog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2012-09-28T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T19:37:00","slug":"the-google-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gusclass.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/28\/the-google-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Google+ Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/X64tX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-775\" title=\"book\" src=\"http:\/\/gusclass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/book-228x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gusclass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/book-228x300.jpeg 228w, http:\/\/gusclass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/book.jpeg 381w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>Jennifer Murphy just published her new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/X64tX\">Developing with Google+<\/a>, and I had the pleasure of reading an early version of it. This is a great read, I recommend it for anybody looking to learn Google+, especially if you are just starting.<\/p>\n<p>In this book, Jennifer teaches you how to program apps that use the Google+ API. She does it through examples that she created for her demo site, baking disasters. The book inspired a number of the posts that I created on this blog and does an excellent job of covering the Activities API, the hangouts API and more.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Jenny, you should <a href=\"http:\/\/little418.com\/\">check out her blog<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+JennyMurphy\/\">follow her on Google+<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The following is the book&#8217;s description:<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to integrate Google+ with an existing website, or build your own social application on the platform? Developing with Google+ takes you on a tour of the Google+ APIs, with lots of concrete examples and hands-on projects. You\u2019ll learn how to take advantage of Google+ social plug-ins, communicate programmatically with Google+ over REST APIs, and author real-time Hangout Apps.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of this book, you\u2019ll follow the progress of a fictional company, Baking Disasters, as it incorporates all the features of the Google+ platform.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make the most of social widgets such as the +1 button, Badge, and the Share button<\/li>\n<li>Use performance tuning techniques to speed up social plugins on your site<\/li>\n<li>Create your own plugins by accessing public data APIs with RESTful web services<\/li>\n<li>Transform an blog into a social web application through server-side processing<\/li>\n<li>Use OAuth to authenticate users and authorize your access to their private data<\/li>\n<li>Extend Google+ Hangouts programmatically and create your own application.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jennifer Murphy just published her new book, Developing with Google+, and I had the pleasure of reading an early version of it. This is a great read, I recommend it for anybody looking to learn Google+, especially if you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[114,17],"tags":[137,42,279],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gusclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gusclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gusclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gusclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gusclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gusclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"http:\/\/gusclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gusclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gusclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gusclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}