Acknowledgments

A big thank you to Michael Stephens and Nermina Miller at Manning, who were patient with me every step of the long way it took to write this book. Thanks also to everyone else at Manning who worked on the second edition in production and behind the scenes.

Thank you Jim Newkirk, Michael Feathers, Gerard Meszaros, and many others, who provided me with inspiration and the ideas that made this book what it is. And a special thank you to Uncle Bob Martin for agreeing to write the foreword to the second edition.

The following reviewers read the manuscript at various stages during its development. I’d like to thank them for providing valuable feedback: Aaron Colcord, Alessandro Campeism, Alessandro Gallo, Bill Sorensen, Bruno Sonnino, Camal Cakar, David Madouros, Dr. Frances Buontempo, Dror Helper, Francesco Goggi, Iván Pazmiño, Jason Hales, João Angelo, Kaleb Pederson, Karl Metivier, Martin Skurla, Martyn Fletcher, Paul Stack, Philip Lee, Pradeep Chellappan, Raphael Faria, and Tim Sloan. Thanks also to Rickard Nilsson, who did a technical proofread of the final manuscript shortly before it went to press.

A final word of thanks to the early readers of the book in Manning’s Early Access Program for their comments in the online forum. You helped shape the book.