Acknowledgments
We’d like to acknowledge all of the people who played important roles in the creation of this book. First of all, the project wouldn’t have even started if not for Jackie Carter, Michael Stephens, and Marjan Bace of Manning Publications. After that, any coherence that the book may exhibit is largely to the credit of our developmental editor Cynthia Kane. We’d also like to thank Benjamin Berg, Dottie Marsico, Mary Piergies, Karen Tegtmeyer, Katie Tennant, Anna Welles, and any other folks at Manning whose efforts we’re less aware of than we probably should be.
We’d also like to thank all of the developers who’ve spent time reading this manuscript and pointing out all of the problems. In particular, we’d like to thank our technical reviewer Wes Wannemacher, who went through the manuscript one last time shortly before it went to press. The following reviewers proved invaluable in the evolution of this book from manuscript to something worth a reader’s investment of time and money: Christopher Schultz, Jeff Cunningham, Rick Evans, Joseph Hoover, Riccardo Audano, Matthew Payne, Bill Fly, Nhoel Sangalang, Matt Michalak, Jason Kolter, Patrick Steger, Kiryl Martsinkevich, Maggie Niemann, Patrick Dennis, Horaci Macias Viel, Tony Niemann, Peter Pavlovich, Andrew Shannon, Bas Vodde, and Wahid Sadik.