Acknowledgments
I would like to open the Acknowledgments section of this book with a sentence by Napoleon Hill:
We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
Hence, I would like to quickly say thank you to all those who have helped me become the person I am today. Thank you to Andy Oram and many thanks to Brian Jepson for their continuous support and many hours they put into working on new projects with me. I am truly grateful.
I thank Gretchen Giles, Betsy Waliszewski, and everybody at O’Reilly for recently contributing $200K to the Japanese Red Cross Society. I am truly honored to have been a part of this. This reminds me to thank Simon Whitty, Shaun Puckrin, Sushil Shirke, Gary McCarville, Kirk Pattinson, and all other colleagues of mine for being a continuous source of inspiration.
Last but not least, thank you for deciding to read this book and becoming a part of O’Reilly’s new and unique way of publishing technology books. I am glad I am a part of this and that I can share my knowledge, in this case about Game Center in iOS, with you wonderful readers.