The Advanced iOS 6 Developer’s Cookbook, Fourth Edition

Acknowledgments

This book would not exist without the efforts of Chuck Toporek, who was my editor and whipcracker for many years and multiple publishers. He is now at Apple and deeply missed. There’d be no Cookbook were it not for him. He balances two great skill sets: inspiring authors to do what they think they cannot, and wielding the large “reality trout” of whacking¹ to keep subject matter focused and in the real world. There’s nothing like being smacked repeatedly by a large virtual fish to bring a book in on deadline and with compelling content.

Thanks go as well to Trina MacDonald (my terrific new editor), Chris Zahn (the awesomely talented development editor), and Olivia Basegio (the faithful and rocking editorial assistant who kept ...