Acknowledgments

The authors of this book would like to thank all of the people who have contributed to the printed version you’re reading. This includes a long list of people at Manning who helped shape the book. Michael Stephens had the initial vision to see the potential for an Adobe AIR title, and for that we thank him. Nermina Miller was the development editor for this book; without her, the book schedule and process would surely have deteriorated entirely. It’s thanks to Nermina that you have a complete and coherent manuscript to read! We’d also like to thank Benjamin Berg for copyediting the manuscript when it was final.

We’d like to thank Karen Tegtmeyer for coordinating the reviews of the manuscript, which helped us to improve the content and writing in response to the comments of early access readers as well as of peer reviewers. Their feedback, as we continued to write and revise, was invaluable. Special thanks to our peer reviewers, Bernard Farrell, Ryan Stewart, Dusty Jewett, Christopher Haupt, Tim O’Hare, Robi Sen, Mike Clymer, Sean Moore, Clint Tredway, Jeremy Anderson, Patrick Peak, Oliver Goldman, Jack D. Herrington, Nathan Levesque, Bruno Lowagie, Daniel Todd, and Brendan Murray.

Robert Glover was the technical editor for this book, which means he went through every chapter and every line of code to ensure its technical accuracy. As you can imagine, this is a very important role, and we offer our sincere thanks to Robert for his fine work.