acknowledgments

I want to thank my development editors, Toni Arritola and Ian Hough, who patiently taught me Manning’s writing style and guided me in completing this book. Big thanks also goes to my acquisitions editor at Manning, Brian Sawyer, for all his support. I also want to thank my technical editors, Daniel Kocot, head of API Experience and Operations at codecentric, and Marjukka Niinioja, API consultant and founding partner at Osaango, for their valuable suggestions that significantly improved the manuscript. Special thanks to Marjukka for meticulously working through all the examples on Windows and identifying many overlooked details. In addition, a huge thank-you goes out to the behind-the-scenes staff at Manning who helped shepherd this book into its final stage.