I would like to thank the team at Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to write this book. Thanks to Newton Sequeira for identifying me to work on this project, and to my editors Dhwani Devater and Hithesh Uchil, for dealing with the bad drafts and encouraging me. Special thanks to Vishal Bodwani, the project coordinator of the book, for keeping his cool and putting up with me, even though I kept missing deadline after deadline.

I would like to thank the mentors I met on this journey of Force.com, who helped and guided me at different stages on Force.com. Without their guidance I would not be where I am today.

I would like to specially mention Aruna Lambat for helping me to prepare the problem statement of the Library Management System cited in the book and Santosh R. Kumbar for developing it based on the requirements.

Finally, I would like to thank the people closest to me, my mom, Shobhana Kabe, my dad, Govind Kabe, and my brother, Chaitanya Kabe, for being supportive and patient while I stayed up all night to complete this book. I would also like to thank my girlfriend, Deepika Kalyani, for being supportive for the duration of this book.

No book on Force.com can be complete without mentioning the amazing developer community and the Force.com team itself; thank you for the great cloud platform and the developer blogs that have helped us from time to time.