It seems unfair that two of our names are on the cover, when so many have contributed to this book. First and foremost, we must thank our families, who provided support and encouragment throughout the project. Thanks especially to Annie, Eli, and Jarod, all of whom showed patience beyond their years as their fathers spent mornings, nights, and weekends poking away at their keyboards. Thanks also to our wives, MB and Meg, who both put up with the distraction and shouldered extra work when there was "just another chapter due" or "a quick e-mail from Apress that needed a response."

We owe a large debt to the staff at Apress itself, not least Adam Heath, Steve Anglin, Jeff Pepper, Brian MacDonald, and all the others who contributed to this book. Apress was exceedingly flexible as we adjusted the manuscript to best tell the story of Nokia's developer platform and tools, with several members of the project working nights and weekends to accommodate our need for changes and the publication schedule at the same time. Thank you all for your efforts.

We would also like to thank Wai Seto, Purnima Kochikar, Leslie Nakajima, and the others at Forum Nokia for their support. While right from the start this was a project for us outside our daily responsibilities at Nokia, their encouragement, review, and support has been instrumental, especially in ensuring alignment between our experience working with Nokia's tools and the information you need to develop your applications with those tools. (Of course, any errors that might remain are our responsibility, and we'll address them going forward on the Apress web site.)

From NRC, we 'd like to thank Kari Pulli for his helpful input and reviews, and especially thank John Shen, whose great support and encouragement came at a time when it was really needed.

Finally, we'd like to thank our fellow staff members so far left unmentioned, both in Nokia's Smartphones division and in the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto. In our work with these folks, we learned much about Qt that we might not have learned alone; discussing our experiences with others greatly informed the process of writing this book. A special thanks to our peers at Nokia Research Center, who tolerated our frequent distractions in the last weeks of the effort, as work on the book bled into our office time.

Ray Rischpater and Daniel Zucker