Ruby on Rails® for Microsoft Developers

Acknowledgments

Winston Churchill once said, "Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public." There is a lot of truth to those sentiments and I feel compelled to briefly thank the people who helped me "kill that monster," as well as those who made the whole process enjoyable.

It has been my pleasure to work with the good folks at Wrox. In particular, I would like to thank Jenny Watson for giving me the opportunity to write this book, my two development editors Kelly Talbot and Sydney Jones for their advice and help with keeping me on track, and my technical editor Ian Piper, as well as Gus Miklos, for their invaluable suggestions. I also would like to thank my manager Leon Katsnelson, who first brought the possibility of writing this book to my attention, and for his continuous support.

I would like to express my gratitude to several people who helped me out in various ways; these friends and world class programmers are (in alphabetical order): Piergiuliano Bossi, Ninh Bui, Marco Ceresa, Paolo Corti, Giovanni Intini, Hongli Lai, Ludovico Magnocavallo, Carlo Miron, Lawrence Oluyede, Gregg Pollack, and Valentino Volonghi. I can't help but also thank Antani and Tarapia Tapioco. A huge thank you goes straight to Marco Beri who was writing a book ...