Acknowledgments

Any technical book is a massive undertaking, due to the number of people required to make sure that it reads well, looks good, and is technically correct. Thus, we have to thank the entire Manning staff, without whom this book literally would not exist. They did more than just correct our errors and polish our words; they also helped us make integral decisions about the organization and the contents of the book—decisions that we believe improved it dramatically.

In particular, we’d like to thank the three people at Manning who helped us at the most pivotal times: Troy Mott, our acquisitions editor, who initially agreed to take on the book and who stayed with us every step of the way; Tom Cirtin, our book editor, who guided our style and content on a regular basis; and Marjan Bace, our publisher, who offered some of the biggest challenges regarding our content and organization and initiated some of the best improvements.

We’d also like to thank Liz Welch, our original copyeditor. We’ve worked with good and bad copy editors over the years, and Liz is definitely a good one. Our text sounded so much better after she was done with it that we don’t even want to look at our early drafts any more. Beyond that, tech editors are crucial to the success of a book like this, so we want to thank our original tech editor, Robert McGovern, who caught minutia that we weren’t even aware of. His encyclopedic knowledge of the newest iPhone releases was awe-inspiring. Further thanks go to copyeditor Andy Carroll and tech editor Larry Whipple, who came in for the latter half of the book, and to Maureen Spencer, who provided a final proofread. Though it’s clichéd to say, it’s true: the errors that snuck in are ours, but many others were corrected by all of these people. There were many, many more people behind the scenes at Manning who were crucial to the book, and we’d like to thank them all.

Finally, we’d like to thank the reviewers who generously agreed to read our book as we worked on it; they improved the book immensely: Jonathon Hohle, Adilson Oliveira Cruz, Edmon Begolli, Frank Abelson, Gershon Kagan, Jean Tantra, Matt Smith, Nhoel Sangalang, Noel Rappin, Satnam Alag, Scott Shaw, Amos Bannister, Andrea Gazzinaga, Robert Dempsey, Jeremy Anderson, Patrick Peak, Nathan Levesque, Aiden Montgomery, Martijn Dashorst, Premkumar Rajendran, Rama Krishna Vavilala, and Tristan O’Tierney.

Christopher would like to additionally thank Chris Messina for inviting him to be a founder of iPhoneDevCamp and to thank his long-time MacHack and SmartFriends colleagues for their support and assistance.

Shannon would also like to thank Christopher, who got this book started in the first place.