Acknowledgments

First I’d like to thank everyone at Manning, starting with my editors, Scott Meyers, Troy Mott, and Jeff Bleiel, and then going on to publisher Marjan Bace and all the others who helped along the way, including Nick Chase, Linda Kern, Benjamin Berg, Katie Tennant, Alyson Brener, and Janet Vail, for their support and hard work.

I’d like to thank the following reviewers for reading my manuscript at various stages of its development and providing invaluable feedback: Jonas Bandi, Jeremy Villeneuve, Mekka Okereke, Amos Bannister, Stephen Aument, Bryan “Groucho” Duke, Serban Porumbescu, Clint Tredway, Mike Stok, Arif Shaikh, Jonathan Hohle, Gavin Whyte, Subhasis Ghosh, Mark Janssen, Barry Tolnas, and Christopher Haupt. I would also like to thank James Hatheway for his technical review of the final manuscript shortly before it went into production.

I’d also like to thank Eric Silverthorn, David Barnard, and Mekka Okereke for giving me so much help and work early on to get me started.

I’d like to thank Steve Jobs and everyone at Apple for creating this market and for everything that surrounds what I get to do every day.

To O.A.R. and Seryn, thanks for providing the soundtrack to my writing of this book and my coding in general.

Amy, my wife, deserves a lot of thanks for putting up with me during this time (and all other times). Thanks to her and my sons for so much love.

And I thank God for all of the above—and everything else!