Ludovic Dewailly is a senior, hands-on software engineer and development manager with over 12 years of experience in designing and building software solutions on platforms ranging from resource-constrained mobile devices to cloud-computing systems. He is currently helping FancyGiving.com (a social shopping, wishing, and gifting platform) design and build their system. Ludovic's interests lie in software architecture and tackling the challenges of web scale.
I would like to thank my fiancée, Gaia, for helping me find the time to work on this book, and for dealing with my testiness after late-night writing sessions. I would also like to thank Neil Emerick from NightsBridge (http://www.nightsbridge.co.za) for providing me with the idea and concepts behind the sample RESTful web service that outlines this book.
Also, I would like to give gratitude to Chris Laffra and Michael Van Meekeren from the defunct Object Technology International, who gave me my first taste of commercial software development.
Finally, I wish to thank Nikhil Potdukhe and Menza Mathew from Packt Publishing for guiding me and helping me convert the original concept of this project into an actual book.