Acknowledgments

I wrote this book at a pace that could charitably be described as “glacial,” so first and foremost I’d like to acknowledge the patient folks at Manning who supported me through all the written and rewritten (and, let’s be honest, sometimes rewritten another time or two) chapters—in particular, Elesha Hyde, my editor, who claims not to be a programmer but who has repeatedly spotted bugs in my code examples, and Marius Butuc, who reviewed every snippet of source code and uncovered more mistakes than I’d prefer to count. Much love to my patient wife, Kristy, for putting up with all my late nights spent writing this thing!

It goes without saying that this book would not exist without Evan Czaplicki, since he created Elm. More than that, though, this book wouldn’t have turned out nearly as well as it did without his involvement and feedback on the early drafts. Thank you so much, Evan! Further thanks go to Brian Hicks, Luke Westby, Robin Heggelund Hansen, MEAP readers who commented on Manning’s liveBook discussion forum, and to everyone else who gave detailed feedback on early chapter drafts. It made a huge difference to me.