Acknowledgments

First and foremost, I’d like to thank my wife Caroline for her amazing patience and support throughout the writing of this book—since I was also starting my company Ruboss and attempting to write Enterprise Flexible Rails all at the same time. Anyone who has written a book or started a company knows how much time these things take, so the fact that over the past two years I wrote this book, started a company, and attempted to write a second book means that Caroline has made a lot of sacrifices.

Second, I’d like to thank my son Evan for his understanding. I managed to have enough time to play “Super Mario Galaxy” and other games with him, but not enough time to finish building the second Lego Mindstorm robot we’ve been working on. Now I will, and Robogator won’t just be a snapping mouth with eyes, but it will have legs and a tail! (Someday I look forward to teaching him how to program these things too...)

I’d also like to thank Dima Berastau. He made huge contributions to Ruboss during 2008, and even contributed a couple of pages to this book and helped with the Yahoo! Maps integration code in chapter 7. The RestfulX Framework is pleasant to work with, and that’s Dima’s doing. Finally, I made a lot of mistakes during our year of working together building Ruboss 1.0, and I’d like Dima to know that I appreciated the opportunity to work with him.