The following individuals contributed hacks, helped with hacks, or reviewed material for this book:
Adam Harris (contributor and reviewer) is the number-one posterby a wide marginon the Skype forums. His knowledge and depth of expertise on Skype are second to none. Adam brought a rigor and passion for accuracy that raised the bar for the author and other contributors.
Lawrence Hudson (reviewer) has been a pioneering user of various technologies for more years than he cares to remember. This has worked to his advantage, and to his disadvantage, throughout his career as a businessperson and entrepreneur. Nonetheless, his fascination and enthusiasm for all things technological remain. Nowhere was this more apparent than in his enthusiastic support for, and thorough review of, this book.
Jason Terando (contributor) is the author of the ever-useful ActiveS component that you can use to interface applications with Skype on Windows. Many of the automation scripts in this book use ActiveS, so a great debt of thanks goes to Jason for making ActiveS so liberally available through a BSD-style license. You can download ActiveS from the KhaosLabs web site, http://www.khaoslabs.com/. Chapter 12 would not have been possibleor, at least, would be only a mere shadow of what it iswere it not for Jason.
Theodore Wallingford (reviewer) is the author of the book VoIP Hacks (O'Reilly). Ted provided valuable feedback on early chapters of the book, and a whole lot of encouragement to do more! Not only is Ted an expert in VoIP technologies (http://www.macvoip.com/), but he's also an enthusiastic and accomplished writer, having published an earlier work on VoIP, Switching to VoIP (O'Reilly).
Kevin Delaney (contributor) is a cofounder of KhaosLabs and is an active member of the Skype forums.