Acknowledgments

I'd like to thank my wife Vittoria, for her love and patience, and my talented sons Sean and Rocky—reach for the stars, boys!

Thanks to my parents, Herman and Elisabeth, my sister Alice, and my brother David for always believing in me, and to my late grandmother Gebbechien whose courageous acts during the Nazi occupation of Holland were a great lesson to our family.

To my coauthors, the never-tiring Brian and the code-generating human Frank, it has been an honor to work with both of you.

Thanks also to Clay at Apress for all your support, and, finally, thanks to Jonas and John at Kaazing for pushing us to write a "real" book—an "unofficial e-book" would still be just a figment of our imagination, I am sure!

—Peter Lubbers

To my parents, ...

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