Acknowledgments
We would like to acknowledge all the folks at Manning who expertly guided us through the development and production processes: Troy Mott, Sebastian Stirling, Susanna Kline, Tiffany Taylor, Toma Mulligan, Mary Piergies, Marija Tudor, and Janet Vail, and many others who worked on our book and whose names we do not know.
Special thanks to our technical proofreader, James Hatheway, who made sure the technical content in our manuscript was up to par and who checked the code examples shortly before the book went into production.
And we would like to acknowledge our peer reviewers, who took the time to read our manuscript at various stages of its development and who provided invaluable feedback: Al Scherer, Christopher Haupt, Craig Smith, David Barkol, David Strong, Frank Ableson, Lester Lobo, Nikolaos Kaintantzis, Paul Stusiak, Peter Friese, Premkumar Rajendran, Ray Booysen, Robert McGovern, Sanchet Dighe, Santosh Shanbhag, and Sarah Forst.
Finally, thanks to J.D. “Illiad” Fraser of User Friendly for letting Manning use the User Friendly cartoons in the Hello! series and for allowing us to put our own words in the characters’ mouths in this book.