Acknowledgments

Only part of the effort that went into putting Xcode 6 Start to Finish into your hands was spent at a text editor. I am indebted to those without whom this book could not have been made. Many of them appear in the formal production credits; they deserve better-than-formal thanks.

Trina MacDonald went through enormous pains to turn a new edition around quickly in the face of the many changes in Xcode. This was not a sure thing; she made sure it happened. Thank you.

Lori Hughes stepped in with skill and good humor to give us a head start in getting the manuscript ready to go on a tight schedule. Julie Nahil, the production manager, stepped in early to make this possible, in addition to her job-title work of turning the manuscript I submitted into the book I’d hoped for.

Olivia Basegio made sure the contracts, correspondence, (and advance payments!) all got through. She guided the reviewers through their work while the book was still in unassembled pieces on the ground.

The reviewers, Chris Zahn, Gene Backlin, and Josh Day, saved me much embarrassment, and made this a much better work than it started. Errors remain. Some are intentional, some not; they are all my own.

Stephanie Geels, the copy editor, made the prosecution of typos, grammar, and which instance of a particular word gets which typeface, more fun than you’d think. In fact, fun.

A full-time day job is not an author’s best friend (except for the part about paying the rent). Alan Takaoka, my boss in the Web Services department of IT Services, The University of Chicago, got me three- and four-day weekends while I wrote. I promised to keep all my meetings and deadlines while I worked on the book, but somehow none of them fell on a Monday or Friday. Cornelia Bailey, who manages most of my projects, kept rescheduling them.

Bess and Kate bore more than daughters should of my doubts and frustrations, and were simply confident that I would do fine—which was all they needed to do.