Acknowledgments

This book wouldn’t have been possible without the support of my wife, Sherry. Our son is a handful sometimes, so I really appreciate you giving me time to write. I doubt I would have finished without your encouragement.

Thanks also to the editors at Manning who kept the bar high and helped me write the book I wanted to write: Kristen Watterson, for guiding me to production; Cynthia Kane, for helping me through writing most of the manuscript; Mark Renfrow, for getting me to my first MEAP release; and Greg Wild, for giving me the chance to write this book and some useful advice along the way.

My thanks also go to Mike Shepard, my technical editor, for telling me when my writing was crap.

I’d also like to thank Samer Alameer for his help with the localization chapter. He not only helped me with the Arabic, but also taught me some important points about localization.

Finally, thank you to all who bought the early access version of this book, to Ricardo Peres, for his technical proofread, and to the team of reviewers who provided invaluable feedback along the way, including Andrew Eleneski, Angelo Simone Scotto, Bruno Figueiredo, Daniel Vásquez, Daut Morina, Eddy Vluggen, Eric Potter, Eric Sweigart, George Marinos, Hari Khalsa, Igor Kokorin, Jeff Smith, Jürgen Hötzel, Mikkel Arentoft, Oscar Vargas, Renil Abdulkader, Rudi Steinbach, Srihari Sridharan, Tiklu Ganguly, and Viorel Moisei.