Acknowledgments

Writing a book like this one is more than the effort of us, the authors. Even though our names are on the cover, it is the result of the hard work of many people.

First, I would like to thank Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche for writing the first version of the book, and for giving me a solid foundation from which to build and expand upon.

I would like to thank the staff at Apress for making sure this book was completed as close to schedule as possible. Brigid Duffy provided the guidance and oversight to make sure I completed this book. Tom Welsh made sure I stayed on topic and kept things clear. Mary Behr made the manuscript look beautiful. I’d also like to thank Brandon Levesque for making sure people knew this book was coming.

Thanks to the technical reviewers Nick Waynick and Mark Dalrymple for making sure the code I wrote actually works. Any mistakes that still exist are mine.

Thanks to my friends and colleagues at AppOrchard for their patience through the last several months of curmudgeonly behavior and for helping me make this project successful.

A great deal of thanks to my wife, Annie, for making sure I worked on this book when I would have rather been watching baseball or playing guitar. Thanks to my cats, PK, Manny, and Leela, for wanting to be fed when I needed a break. An extra thanks goes to Manny for being the subject of many of the examples in this book.

Finally, thanks to you, the reader, for buying this book. We like to think of programming as a scientific discipline, but, at times it feels more like a black art. If this book helps you on your journey of understanding iOS programming, then it is all worthwhile.