Acknowledgments

Randy

First and foremost I would like to thank Nat Torkington, editor and friend. He brought this opportunity to me, and was amazingly patient as I struggled to get up to speed with the materials I was given. My friends Paul and Ami Echeverri, both tech writers, didn't help with the book so much as keep me sane and entertained while fielding the occasional question about writing.

Ryan Dietrich introduced me to XML-RPC (and Radiohead's "Kid A" CD) while he was contracting to Red Hat. I'm also grateful to Kevin Greene, Stephen Nelson, Mike Reynolds, and Sky Schultz from my time as a contractor at Hewlett-Packard, and to Matt Lanier, Paul Lindner, Jason Miller, Garth Webb, Tom Lancaster, Eric Chen, and Bob Moss from my time at Red Hat.

Thanks to all the technical reviewers, and especially to Pavel Kulchenko, who not only reviewed but contributed , and who also was quick to answer a barrage of questions as I was writing the chapters on SOAP::Lite .

Finally, I'd like to acknowledge the Perl community, in particular the perl5-porters community. Not for the creation and maintenance of Perl, as you might assume, but for the community they've built around it. It is because of this sense of community that I was able to grow from just another programmer using the language, to being able to contribute modules to CPAN and eventually write this book.

Pavel

I owe a debt of gratitude to many people who one way or another made this book possible.

I would like to thank to my wonderful coauthor, Randy Ray, who was the pleasure to work with. Special thanks to Tony Hong, Stephen Friedl, Igor Dvoeglazov, and others who reviewed the draft of the book for their sound technical advice and valuable feedback.

Thanks are due to the people in the Perl and SOAP communities; their enthusiastic support, contributions, comments, and insistence on clarity have all made some difference to the book.

Thanks to our wonderful technical editor, Nathan Torkington, who was gently persistent in his effort to get this book happen and contributed his knowledge and experience to make it great.

And last, but definitely not the least, I wouldn't be able to finish the writing without my family's patience and love (or maybe I would, but what would be the point). Even though they have no interest in the content of the book (at least for now), my son Daniil and my wife Alena provided the support and encouragement I needed. Thank you!