Acknowledgments
We’d like to acknowledge the people at Manning who gave us the opportunity to publish this work. Aside from their contribution in bringing the manuscript to its final form, they patiently waited for its completion, which took much longer than we’d originally planned. In particular, we’d like to thank Marjan Bace, Jeff Bleiel, Karen Tegtmeyer, Megan Yockey, Mary Piergies, Maureen Spencer, Steven Hong, Ron Tomich, Benjamin Berg, Elizabeth Martin, and everyone else on the Manning team who worked on the book but whose names we do not know. Thanks for your hard work.
We’d also like to recognize the time, effort, and valuable feedback that we received from our reviewers and our visitors in the Author Online forum. Your feedback helped make this book better in many ways. We understand how limited and precious “free” time is for every professional so please know that your contributions were greatly appreciated.
We especially thank the following reviewers for reading our manuscript a number of times at various stages during its development and for sharing their comments with us: Robert Hanson, Sumit Pal, Carlton Gibson, David Hanson, Eric Swanson, Frank Wang, Bob Hutchison, Craig Walls, Nicholas C. Heinle, Vlad Gorsky, Alessandro Gallo, Craig Lancaster, Jason Kolter, Martyn Fletcher, and Scott Dawson. Last but not least, thanks to Ajay Bhandari who was the technical proofreader and who read the chapters and checked the code one last time before the book went to press.