ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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No commercial book is published without many people in the background. This
goes out to everyone involved in the process at Manning Publications. Michael Stephens,
who I talked to first, bought into the idea of this book and ultimately trusted me to do
a good job. My gratitude also goes to Cynthia Kane, who helped me to find my writing
style. I’d also like to thank Jennifer Stout, my development editor, who always tried to
get the best out of me, made me think about whole text passages in a different way,
and tolerated my impatience. You’ve been a great help. Thanks also to the whole
Manning production and marketing team for guidance along the way and for making
the book what it is now. I know you did a tremendous amount of work.
I’d also like to thank the members of the Gradleware team, as well as the Gradle
community, for creating Gradle and pushing the boundaries of build automation.
Your continued effort and belief in a high-quality product improves the life of many
disgruntled build masters around the globe. Special thanks go out to René Gröschke
and Luke Daley for their technical insight and their review of the first third of the
book. I am also grateful to Hans Dockter, the founder of Gradle, for contributing the
foreword and endorsing this book in its early stages, and for the continued promotion
through Gradleware.
Thanks to the following reviewers of the manuscript who provided invaluable feed-
back and gave me a different perspective on the content: Andy Keffalas,
BJ
Peter
DeLaCruz, Chris Grijalva, Chris Nauroth, Dominik Helleberg, Eric Wendelin, Iain
Starks, John Moses, Jon Bodner, Marcin Nowina-Krowicki, Mayur S. Patil, Mehrdad
Karjoo, Mohd Suhaizal Md Kamari, Nacho Ormeño, Nick Watts, Pawel Dolega, Rob
Bugh, Robin Percy, Samuel Brown, Scott Bennett-McLeish, Steve Dickson, Tarin
Gamberini, Wellington R. Pinheiro, and Zekai Otles. Thanks also to Barry Kern for his
careful technical proofread of the manuscript shortly before it went into production.
Special thanks to Spencer Allain, Jonathan Keam, and Robert Wenner for thor-
oughly reading every chapter of the book and providing me with line-by-line edits and
comments at different stages of development; Michael McGarr and Samuel Brown for
bouncing around ideas that involved content on continuous delivery and DevOps;
and Baruch Sadogursky from
JF
rog for the technical review of chapter 14 and for pro-
moting the book even before it was released. I also wish to thank the relentless Author
Online forum participants for pushing the content to the next level.
Writing a book requires making sacrifices and puts tremendous strain on personal
relationships. I would like to thank my family and friends for being supportive,
encouraging, and understanding while I’ve worked toward completing this ambitious
goal. And, yes, there will be time for hanging out without me thinking about the con-
tent of the current chapter.
I’m deeply grateful to my wife Sarah for her unending support and optimism. You
pushed me to believe in myself, made me take breaks from writing, and tolerated me
falling asleep before 9:00 p.m. most days. Without you, the writing process would have
been far more grueling than it was.
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