Acknowledgments

Writing a book takes time—a lot of time. So the first thank you is to my wife, Jane Horsdal Gammelgaard, for supporting me all the way through. You’re awesome, Jane.

I would like to thank my editor, Dan Maharry, who, through great suggestions, gentle nudges, the occasional shove, and a relentless focus on creating a high-quality product, pushed me to write a much better book than I would have otherwise. A big thank you also goes to my technical editor, Michael Lund, for his thorough code reviews and suggestions for improvements, and for ripping my line of reasoning apart whenever it wasn’t clear. A special thanks to Karsten Strøbæk for his in-depth technical proofreading.

I can’t thank enough the amazing group of technical peer reviewers: Andy Kirsch, Brian Rasmussen, Cemre Mengu, Guy Matthew LaCrosse, James McGinn, Jeff Smith, Jim McGinn, Matt R. Cole, Morten Herman Langkjær, Nestor Narvaez, Nick McGinness, Ronnie Hegelund, Samuel Bosch, and Shahid Iqbal. They suggested topics and other ways of presenting topics and caught typos and mistakes in code and terminology. Each pass through the review process and each piece of feedback provided through the forum discussions helped shape the book.

Finally, I want to thank the people at Manning who made this book possible: publisher Marjan Bace, acquisitions editor Greg Wild, and everyone on the editorial and production teams, including Tiffany Taylor, Katie Tennant, Melody Dolab, and Gordan Salinovic.