There were several individuals and companies that offered great support in the creation of this book. Rich Highland, Claus Ibsen, and Jonathan Anstey of FuseSource. Atlassian supplied a license of Clover for code coverage. Eviware supported many recipes with a license of soapUI Pro. Jetbrains supplied a license of IntelliJ IDEA editor. MadeForNet supplied a license of HTTP Debugger. Vandyke Software supplied licenses for SecureCRT and SecureFX. YourKit supplied a license for the YourKit profiler.
Visual Paradigm assisted me with the use of their UML modeling suite that was instrumental in writing this book, as well as a powerful tool I have recommended and used on many projects to describe, design and detail all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
Bhavin Parikh assisted in many of the soapUI recipes in this book. Mr. Parikh is a Senior Consultant and Scrum Master, currently employed at Valtech and has more than 13 years of extensive software development experience in OOP, Java, J2EE, web services, database, and various middleware and enterprise technologies. Mr. Parikh holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Penn State University, and he spoke on data mining at the 13th International Conference on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems and Software Engineering.
Jim Leary of CloudBees assisted with Jenkins and cloud deployment recipes. Mr. Leary has over 30 years of experience in the information technology field. Over half his career has involved working with web-based technologies across a wide swath of frameworks, platforms, and languages. He has held positions as a software developer, manager and architect in a variety of industries including high technology, financial services and energy.
Shawn Northart assisted in Munin and firewall recipes. Mr. Northart moved to San Jose in 2003 after serving various technical support and system administration roles for several ISPs in and around Sacramento. In managed hosting, he honed his system administration skills working with Apache, PHP, and MySQL on the FreeBSD and Linux platforms. He has also worked extensively with designing, implementing, and tuning web-server farms, both large and small, for a number of high-traffic websites.
Justin Zealand assisted with the iOS section in Chapter 6, Enterprise Mobile Device Integration. Justin is an independent contractor with over a decade of programming experience in Java-based web systems and more recently native mobile platforms, including iOS and Android. Justin has worked at major companies across a wide range of industries and across many Internet technology disciplines.
Friends and family: I would like to thank my mother for teaching me how to work hard and how one must sometimes make sacrifices to achieve one's goals. I would like to thank my father for giving me the motivation to persevere against all odds. This book would not have been possible without the support of all of my friends throughout the entire process.