Acknowledgments

Thanks are due to the great people at Manning for their role in the creation of this book. Renae Gregoire played a major role, pushing us toward eloquence, clarity, and quality. Bert Bates helped define the book’s visual feel, working with us to design graphics expressing various concepts presented in the book. Marjan Bace and Michael Stephens believed in us enough to entrust us with the creation of the book and helped keep the project moving. And Manning’s editorial, production, and technical staff were amazing to work with.

Many people reviewed the manuscript in various stages of its development, and we would like to thank them for their feedback. This includes our MEAP readers who posted comments and corrections in the book’s online forum, and the following reviewers who read the manuscript multiple times and whose insights and comments helped make this a much better book: Àlex Madurell, Bert Thomas, Bradley Meck, Braj Panda, Brian L. Cooley, Brian Del Vecchio, Brian Dillard, Brian Ehmann, Brian Falk, Daniel Bretoi, Gary Ewan Park, Jeremy Martin, Jeroen Nouws, Jeroen Trappers, Kassandra Perch, Kevin Baister, Michael Piscatello, Patrick Steger, Paul Stack, and Scott Banachowski.

Thanks also to Valentin Crettaz and Michael Levin for their careful technical proofread of the final manuscript, shortly before it went into production. Last but not least, we’d like to thank Isaac Schlueter, Node Project Lead, for contributing the foreword to our book.

MIKE CANTELON