First and foremost, I would like to thank God, whose many blessings have made me who I am today. To my wife, Vivin, for her constant love and support and for not letting me give up on writing this book. To my beloved son, Olav, who has given me so much happiness and has kept me hopping. To my parents and family for their inspiration.

Also, thank you to the following individuals; without their contributions and support, this book would not have been written.

The great team at Packt Publishing, especially Tushar Gupta, my acquisition editor, who invited me to author this book and guided me to start writing it. Rashmi Suvarna, my content development editor, for her efforts in making my book's content awesome. Abhishek Kotian, my technical editor, who ensured that all the source code is valid; thanks for correcting my confusing phrases.

My superiors at Cipta Srigati Lestari, Abdul Hakim and Benediktus Dwi Desiyanto, for all the knowledge you have shared—not only about technical stuff, but also about soft skills. It proved to be really helpful while I was writing this book.

Christopher Kohlhoff, the founder of Boost Asio; thanks for your video presentation on YouTube titled Thinking Asynchronously: Designing Applications with Boost.Asio, which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-lTwGJRx0o.

Boris Schäling, the author of The Boost C++ Libraries and the owner of http://www.theboostcpplibraries.com; thanks for your site. It has inspired me a lot.

Drew Benton, thanks for sharing your knowledge of Boost.Asio on the gamedev.net forum at http://www.gamedev.net/blog/950/entry-2249317-a-guide-to-getting-started-with-boostasio/?pg=1.

Thanks to Harvard University for providing free lectures on GDB at http://www.sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html and also for providing quick and easy-to-understand videos about GDB on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCtY--xRUyI.

John Torjo is a renown C++ expert. He has been programming for over 15 years, most of which were spent doing C++. Sometimes, he also codes C# or Java. He's also enjoyed writing articles about programming in C++ Users Journal (currently, Dr. Dobbs) and other magazines. In his spare time, he likes playing poker and driving fast cars. One of his freelance projects lets him combine two of his passions, programming and poker. You can reach him at <[email protected]>.