Acknowledgments

There are many people to thank for this book.

Laura Lewin: Laura is an Executive Editor at Pearson. She’s the person I email when I’m late on a chapter to apologize and offer unique excuses. No matter how friendly her response, which is always extremely friendly, the exchange helps pressure and shame me into working harder to meet the deadlines.

Adam Purkiss, Gene Teglovic: The technical reviewers for this edition have really impressed me with what they caught in the draft. They verified all of the code listings and made countless suggestions for improvement throughout.

Songlin Qiu: Songlin is a Development Editor at Pearson. There are no figure/listing numbering, styling, grammatical, or consistency problems that go unnoticed when she’s on the job.

Olivia Basegio: Olivia is an Editorial Assistant at Pearson. She’s a big part of making the publishing process fairly painless.

Kavindra Patel, Nick Tran: These two work at Salesforce.com and have been longtime supporters of the book, especially this third edition. I can’t thank them enough.

Jay Gauthier: Jay is the VP of R&D at Software AG. His detailed feedback on the second edition of this book drove some of the improvements found in this edition.

Gretchen, Mark, Tom, and Nate: Writing this book made me true to my panda name, so +1,000 for your associated pain and suffering. Now that it’s done, I need a new name, like Well-Tempered Panda.

Tracey: Thank you for supporting me as always, checking on me to see if I’m still alive in my writing chair, and making “rocket fuel” (iced coffee), which lost its kick somewhere around Chapter 6.