Andrew Williams has over 15 years of commercial software development experience across a variety of programming languages, including Java, C, Objective-C, and Go. He has been a core developer in large open source projects such as Enlightenment, EFL, and Maven, as well as maintaining various community websites and tutorials. Since 2007, Andrew has been working as CTO with many early-stage and growing software start-ups. After 6 years spent expanding an award-winning mobile app development company, he is now applying the lessons he has learned to cross-platform desktop applications using Go. Andrew is passionate about building tools and services that make software development simpler and improve productivity, as well as making it easier to become a great software engineer.
I extend my eternal thanks to my wife, Michelle, for believing in me and encouraging me to write this book. My thanks also go to my friends and family for always providing support and inspiration. Thanks to my great reviewer, Al, for the care and time he devoted to polishing this book. Thanks also to the tech community in Edinburgh for championing learning and innovation. Lastly, this book would not have been possible without the supportive team at Packt.
Alastair Roy Poole is a programmer and writer from Aberdeen, Scotland. He has a passion for writing low-level implementations of popular technologies, as well as creating simple solutions to complicated problems.
He has been working with free and open source software since the mid-1990s, and many of his projects have been distributed worldwide as an author of both applications and libraries. He specializes in C, Perl, and, increasingly, in Go (among other technologies).
Alastair has a strong aversion to reliance on cloud-based technologies and severe reservations about the corporate-led direction of most open source technologies today. He has great admiration for projects with strong leadership, especially the OpenBSD project.
I would like to thank my family for their continued support throughout my life. Most specifically, I must mention my partner-in-crime, Anastasija, for pushing me and keeping me motivated in my work and making me happy too.
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