Acknowledgments
Authoring a book requires great effort and it is difficult to list everyone who helped us during this project. First and foremost we would like to thank everyone at Manning, especially publisher Marjan Bace and development editor Jackie Carter, for their encouragement and support during the past year. We would also like to thank others at Manning who worked on different stages of the project: editors Lianna Wlasiuk and Betsey Henkels, review editor Karen Tegtmayer, and project editor Mary Piergies. Our sincere thanks also to King Wang of Oracle who performed the technical review of the book before it went to press, to Liz Welch who copyedited our prose, and to typesetter Denis Dalinnik who converted our Word documents into a real book!
Many reviewers spent their valuable time reading the manuscript at various stages of development and their feedback greatly improved the quality of the book. They are Glenn Stokol, Deiveehan Nallazhagappan, Peter George, Berndt Hamboeck, Pat Dennis, Vincent Yin, Thomas Scheuchzer, Chuk Munn, TVS Murthy, Norman Richards, Eric Raymond, Rob Abbe, Bas Vodde, Awais Bajwa, Kunal Mittal, Riccardo Audano, Dan Dobrin, King Wang, Alan Mackenzie, Deren Ebdon, Andrus Adamchik, Matt Payne, Vinny Carpenter, Alex Pantaleev, and Chris Richardson. Finally we would like to thank Micah Silverman who initiated this project but could not stay involved due to lack of time.