Acknowledgments

Many people contributed to this book, both in the tangible sense of giving reviews and feedback, and also in a more intangible regard by giving me the encouragement and positive words to continue with the project, even when there was seemingly no end in sight.

Throughout the course of writing, I was fortunate enough to receive feedback from a wide range of sources, but there are several people that I specifically need to single out and thank. First, I would like to thank Jon-Anders Teigen and Ross Mellgren for being such amazing sounding boards for ideas, and for often providing a much-needed sanity check late at night. In addition, I would like to thank the following people from the Scala community who have had an influence on me during the writing of this book; your blogs, screencasts, and personal discussions have been a source of inspiration and always remind me there is so much more to learn: Martin Odersky, Debasish Ghosh, Tony Morris, Rúnar Bjarnason, Mark Harrah, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen, Jeppe Cramon, Vassil Dichev, Marius Danicu, Derek Chen-Becker, Jorge Ortiz, and Josh Suereth.

I would also like to thank the companies that use Scala commercially and who have constructively given their feedback; particular thanks go to Harry Heymann and all the Foursquare engineers, Daniel Spiewak and David LaPalomento at Novel, Steve Jenson and Robey Pointer at Twitter, and Jonas Bonér and Viktor Klang at Typesafe.