Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank Manning Publications, especially publisher Marjan Bace and my editor Cynthia Kane, and everyone who helped with the development and production of the book. Special thanks to Phil Cohen for providing his technical insights during the technical proofread of the final manuscript.

For their thoughtful comments on the content, I’d like to thank the readers who participated in the Manning Early Access Program and provided feedback in the Author Online forum, and to the following reviewers who read the manuscript at various stages during its development: Andrew Totmakov, Monty J. Grusendorf, Anil Radhakrishna, Sean Hogg, Nikander Bruggeman, Margriet Bruggeman, Richard Siddaway, Kunal Mittal, John Powell, Christian Siegers, John Timney, Linley Schaller, Sanchet Dighe, Prajwal Khanal, Ed Richard, Berndt Hamboeck, Rama Krishna, Paula Shank, Tony Niemann, and Amos Bannister.

To my parents, thanks for inspiring me to always achieve great things, and to my family, thanks for enduring the late nights of work on the book. I dedicate this book to my husband Luke, and my son Luca, and thank them for keeping me sane and making sure I always have balance in my life as well as freedom to pursue my passions. Tigy, your video game time may suffer now that the book is done!

Without all the people mentioned here, and also those who worked behind the scenes and whose names I don’t know, this book would have never made it to publication.