Acknowledgments

We first want to thank Karen Miller, our development editor at Manning, who put up with our many missed deadlines and gave us great feedback during the writing process. We’d also like to thank our awesome copyeditors, Benjamin Berg, Melinda Rankin, and Andy Carroll, for catching an amazing number of grammatical errors in the early revisions of the book. The greater Manning team deserves kudos as well; they’ve made for a very pleasant writing experience over the past year and a half.

We would like to think James Ward for writing such a great foreword to our book.

Thanks to Wayne Ellis for being our technical proofreader, catching those bugs we missed, and helping improve the source code for the book.

Big thanks to our team of reviewers, who provided invaluable feedback during various stages of the book’s development: Dr. Lochana C. Menikarachchi, Franco Lombardo, Jeroen Nouws, John Tyler, Koray Güçlü, Laurent DeCorps, Michael Schleichardt, Patria H. Lukman, Ricky Yim, Rob Williams, Ryan Cox, Santosh Shanbhag, and William E. Wheeler.

Special thanks to the Play for Scala book team—our colleagues Peter Hilton, Erik Bakker, and Francisco Canedo—for cooperating with us on the book. We’d like to thank Lunatech for providing us with a great work environment that makes it possible to do cool stuff like work with and contribute to Play.

In addition, we’d like to give a big warm thank you to the Play community. Without the community, the Play project wouldn’t be as successful as it is today. In addition to the Play community, we would like to especially thank all our readers who posted on the Manning Online Author forum after reviewing the Early Access (MEAP) chapters. Special thanks to Steve Chaloner, “Infra,” “Askar,” and all others for providing such great feedback.

Of course, our biggest supporters are our families, who supported us even though they don’t have a clue what the book is about.

NICOLAS would like to thank his wife Sylke for her support during the book project, and his girls Emilie and Isabelle for distracting him when in need of a break.

SIETSE would like to thank his wife Joekie for her endless patience and loving support—not just during the writing of this book, but always.