Acknowledgments
There are many people we want to thank for their help in making this book, starting with the Manning team: Michael Stephens, who first discussed the project with us; Christina Rudloff; the inimitable Marjan Bace; marketing genius Candace Gillhoolley; and our wonderful editors, in order of appearance: Emily Macel, Sara Onstine, and Sebastian Stirling. They were absolutely invaluable in providing advice and critiques, and in revving us up when we were out of juice.
We wish to thank our production team of Mary Piergies; maestro Troy Mott and his band of merry editors: Ben Berg, Tara McGoldrick, and Bob Herbstman; our talented proofreaders: Katie Tennant and Alyson Brener; and others behind the scenes whom we are not able to name.
The reader community also deserves a huge amount of credit. Author Online forum members MikB, carcarx, Javier Beneito Barquero, Mike Oliver, Gary White, nancom, delgad9, mexxik, netname, Henry G. Brown, varevadal, Terry Jeske, and Jeff Hall, among others, helped us find bugs, from the stupid to the super-complex, and gave us honest feedback when we needed it most. Keep ’em coming, and we’ll keep updating our errata and samples.