Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank my wife, MJ, for the many late nights spent helping me edit chapters and learning more about graphs than she ever really wanted to know. For fans of her Immersion series of young-adult fiction, I apologize that I took her away from writing the second and third installments; please forgive me.

I’d also like to thank the team at Manning for giving me the opportunity to write this book and for patiently allowing the time to refine it into a work that I’m willing to attach my name to. In particular, my editor Cynthia Kane has provided the right mix of encouragement, constructive criticism, and well-deserved scolding for missing my deadlines—if this book doesn’t match the platonic ideal represented by Object Oriented Perl (Damian Conway, 1999, Manning Publications), the blame falls squarely on me. Also, Pablo Domínguez Vaselli, my technical proofer, has been a huge help in ensuring that I didn’t make any false statements and that my source code ran, and I’m very grateful for that help.

My appreciation also goes out to reviewers Rodrigo Candido de Abreu, John D. Lewis, Aseem Anand, Sumit Pal, Tony M. Dubitsky, David Krieff, Prof Jan Aerts, Lukasz Bonenberg, Jonathan Suever, Rocio Chongtay, and Heather Campbell for helping me to make the book the best it can be.