Acknowledgments

Roger Weeks

Writing this book would not have been possible without the backing and inspiration of my wife, Cynthia. Despite a house sometimes too cluttered with geek gear, long technical conversations, and more than one late night, she's always there for me.

Many thanks also to Schuyler Erle, who not only got the book approved by O'Reilly, but somehow managed to convince them that I should be the author.

All of the "Cats" should be thanked publicly for their amazing amounts of knowledge, friendship, and hard work: Rob Flickenger, Schuyler Erle, Adam Flaherty, Nate Boblitt, Jim Rosenbaum, and Rich Gibson. Without them, significant parts of the West Coast would be very boring, and the wireless community would be much poorer.

Finally, many thanks to Brad Silva for excellent hardware advice and soldering skills.

Edd Dumbill

I would like to thank Marcel Holtmann and Maxim Krasnyansky for their devoted work on the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack and, of course my wife Rachael for her patient support.

Brian Jepson

My thanks go out to Schuyler Erle and Rob Flickenger for helping to develop the original outline of this book and for technical review. Thanks also to Adam Flaherty for technical review. I'm very grateful to Roger and Edd for being such great coauthors .

I'd especially like to thank my wife, Joan, and my stepsons, Seiji and Yeuhi, for their support and encouragement through my late night and weekend writing sessions, my occasional trips around town in a car full of Wi-Fi and GPS equipment, and the various milliwattage that soaked through the walls of my home office while I worked on this book.