Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Gwenan Spearing for the opportunity to be part of this book. Thank you to Melissa Maldonado for keeping the project on task. Thanks to Gary Schwartz and Fabio Ferracchiati. Your feedback was essential to the success of this project. Thank you to everyone at Apress for an awesome opportunity.

I’d like to thank Lori Lalonde for her hard work in coauthoring this book. She brought a great deal of experience to the table and did a wonderful job.

I’d like to thank my parents for supporting me and my passion for programming. Finally, I’d like to dedicate this book to the memory of my grandmother, Daisy Burns.

—Buddy James

First and foremost, I would like to thank Gwenan Spearing, who brought me onto this book project. It is because of your support and encouragement that I have coauthored two Apress books, simply because you reached out and asked me to write for Apress.

Thanks to Buddy James for entrusting me to help him complete this book, which was his project and vision all along.

Thanks to the entire team at Apress that had a hand in the making of this book: Melissa Maldonado, Gary Schwartz, Fabio Ferracchiati, and the countless others behind the scenes.

Last but not least, thanks to my family for putting up with me during the writing of this book. Your support means the world to me.

—Lori Lalonde