Acknowledgments
The number of people involved in writing a book would surprise most people. It took a collaborative effort on the part of many contributors with a variety of talents to bring the volume you are holding (or ebook that you are reading onscreen) to fruition.
The staff at Manning worked tirelessly with us to make sure this book attained the level of quality we hoped for, and we thank them for their efforts. Without them, this book would not have been possible. The “end credits” for this book include not only our publisher, Marjan Bace, and editor Dan Maharry, but also the following contributors: Ozren Harlovic, Gregor Zurowski, Kevin Sullivan, Janet Vail, Tiffany Taylor, Sharon Wilkey, Alyson Brener, and Gordan Salinovic.
Enough cannot be said to thank our peer reviewers who helped mold the final form of the book, from catching simple typos to correcting errors in terminology and code, and helping to organize the chapters in the book. Each pass through a review cycle ended up vastly improving the final product. For taking the time to review the book, we’d like to thank Jacob Andresen, Tidjani Belmansour, Francesco Bianchi, Matthew Halverson, Becky Huett, Daniel Lamb, Michael Lund, Kariem Ali Elkoush, Elyse Kolker Gordon, Christopher Haupt, Mike Hatfield, Gerd Klevesaat, Alex Lucas, Arun Noronha, Adam Scheller, David Starkey, and Gregor Zurowski.