Acknowledgments
Writing a book is a long and arduous process. Many people were involved and we’re sure to forget someone here. Our sincere thanks to all of you.
We must acknowledge the entire staff at Manning, especially Emily Macel who guided us through most of the writing process, and Michael Stephens for his support and patience when things got tough. There were others, including Maureen Spencer, Karen Tegtmeyer, Christina Rudloff, Tiffany Taylor, Katie Tennant, Mary Piergies, and Dennis Dalinnik, who helped along the way, and of course, publisher Marjan Bace who green-lighted the project.
Thanks to all the technical reviewers listed here and to Margriet Bruggeman and Nikander Bruggeman who did a final technical proofread of the manuscript shortly before it went to press. Your valuable feedback made this book better: Erik D. Lane, Craig Smith, Rob Reynolds, Aleksey Nudelman, Darren Neimke, Dave Corun, Jonas Bandi, Derik Whittaker, Sebastien Vaucouleur, Amos Bannister, Philippe Vialatte, Eric C. A. Swanson, Marc Gravell, Anil Radhakrishna, and Lester Lobo.
Finally, we would like to thank all of the readers of Manning’s Early Access Program (MEAP) who added comments and corrections to our manuscript via the Author Online forum.