March 2012
Intermediate to advanced
120 pages
3h 5m
English
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Acknowledgments
Thanks to the wonderful staff at O’Reilly, especially my editor, Andy Oram, for helping me nurture the book from concept to execution. Special thanks to Fred Trotter for providing the weight data used in Chapter 1 of this book. Fred also coined the term “Programmable Self,” and was gracious enough to let us use it in the book title. Thanks to Eric Friedman and the Fitbit team for helping with sleep data and the updated HealthVault integration for Fitbit.
I would like to acknowledge my family and friends for being a constant source of motivation and support. They have constantly kept up with my myriad self-experiments and projects and have pushed me to discover and learn more. I greatly acknowledge the debt they are owed, and this book is dedicated to them.
Thanks to Heidi Klinck for reviewing initial drafts and Chris Tremonte for content layout ideas. Thanks to Rob May, an exceptional developer on HealthVault team, for contributing content and code samples for the HealthVault Java library.
I am grateful to the technical reviewers for providing valuable comments on early drafts of this book, especially Rob May, Umesh Madan, Sean Nolan, Ali Emami of Microsoft, Bill Reid of Numera, and other members of HealthVault team.
Last but not least, thanks to Sean Nolan and team for conceptualizing and creating HealthVault, and Gary Wolf and team for driving the Quantified Self movement.
I hope that you will have as much fun reading this work as I did writing it, and will immerse ...
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