Acknowledgments
We couldn’t have created this book without the help of many people. Palak Mathur and Christian Alfano did an excellent job as the technical reviewers of our book; thank you for the many hours you spent editing our broken code examples.
We’d also like to thank our peer reviewers for taking the time and providing invaluable feedback during the development phase: Chris Bakar, Gaurav Bhardwaj, Jacob Bosma, José Diaz, Marco Gambini, Sergio Fernandez Gonzalez, Jerry Goodnough, John Griffin, Stephan Heffner, Chad Johnston, Christophe Martini, Robby O’Connor, Anthony Patricio, and Denis Wang.
Manning’s publisher Marjan Bace again assembled a great production team at Manning: Christina Taylor edited our crude manuscript and turned it into a real book. Tiffany Taylor found all our typos and made the book readable. Dottie Marsico was responsible for typesetting and gave the book its great look. Mary Piergies coordinated and organized the production process. We’d like to thank you all for working with us.
Finally, special thanks to Linda DeMichiel for writing the foreword to the first edition.
I’d like to thank my parents for getting me started on my journey, providing me with the opportunity for a great education, and giving me the freedom to choose my path. I’m eternally grateful to my wife Lori and my son Alexander for giving me the time to pursue yet another project like this one, my third book.