Acknowledgments

When reading acknowledgments in other books, I’m always surprised by the number of people the author thanks. I now understand how big the list can be, and as I write these words I’m nervous that I may be forgetting someone.

First of all, I want to thank Cynthia Kane, my development editor. She helped me manage the book. She pointed out every single thing that needed a change, dealt with my inadequacies in English, and helped me understand the key parts of creating a book. Almost every single line I wrote needed a fix, and while it was sometimes frustrating for Cynthia, the result of these repeated iterations is a book of which I am proud.

Another key player was Nicholas Chase. Nick is in charge of support for the Manning XML schema and the authoring tool. Fortunately, Nick was online on Skype every time I had an question for him.

The rest of the Manning team also played a big part. Some of the people who worked with me are Ozren Harlovic, Kevin Sullivan, Tara McGoldrick Walsh, Benjamin Berg, Katie Tennant, Candace Gillhoolley, Martin Murtonen, Michael Stephens, and Maureen Spencer.

Thanks to the collaborators: William Sanville (Hack 40: Last-in-first-out image loading; and Hack 41: Building databases with ORMLite); Chris King (Hack 26: Adding section headers to a ListView); and Christopher Orr (Hack 50: Using Jenkins to deal with device diversity). They lent their expertise to complete these areas.