A special thanks to all the developers of and contributors to the excellent tools I’ve covered in this book, as well as all the wonderful folks at Manning who helped make this book possible: Stephen Soehnlen, Marina Michaels, Aleksandar Dragosavljevic, Deirdre Hiam, Carl Quesnel, Keri Hales, and Barbara Mirecki. Also thank you to my technical proofer, Al Krinker, and technical developmental editor, Michael Smolyak.
To all the reviewers: Aditya Kasuhik, Al Krinker, Ariel Gamino, Craig E. Pfeifer, David Jacobs, Diego Casella, Duncan McRae, Gary Bake, Hawley Waldman, Jason Rendel, Jibesh Patra, Joseph Wang, Justin Fister, Maxim Kupfer, Richard Meinsen, Richard Tobias, Sayak Paul, Simone Sguazza, Stuart Woodward, Taylor Dolezal, and Vitosh K. Doynov, your suggestions helped make this a better book.