I would like to thank my fiancée, Gaia, for helping me find the time to work on this book, and for dealing with my testiness after late-night writing sessions. I would also like to thank Neil Emerick from NightsBridge (http://www.nightsbridge.co.za) for providing me with the idea and concepts behind the sample RESTful web service that outlines this book.

Also, I would like to give gratitude to Chris Laffra and Michael Van Meekeren from the defunct Object Technology International, who gave me my first taste of commercial software development.

Finally, I wish to thank Nikhil Potdukhe and Menza Mathew from Packt Publishing for guiding me and helping me convert the original concept of this project into an actual book.