Acknowledgments

There were so many people who helped out with this book.

I’ll start with folks at Manning Publications:

Thanks to Nicole Butterfield for approaching me about writing this book—she’s the first person I spoke to at Manning. Mike Stephens and Marjan Bace have been keeping an eye on the book throughout the process and have helped steer it in a good direction. Matt Merkes did the technical proofing and made sure that all the content in here is as accurate as possible. Thanks to Linda Recktenwald for copyediting the whole manuscript and to Mary Piergies and Kevin Sullivan for bringing this book into final production. I’d also like to thank Sean Dennis for being my editor on the first few chapters; he offered a ton of valuable feedback that formed the early stages of this book.