1 Acknowledgements

This book wouldn’t be possible without the aid and support of a bunch of great people. In no particular order:

Matthew Turland

http://www.matthewturland.com
@elazar on Twitter

Matthew Turland is an old friend of mine, and one of the resources I continually utilise to spitball ideas with. He’s great at talking through semantics or explaining best practices, and his tutelage has been indispensable over the years. He graciously agreed to act as a reviewer for this project, and his insights and suggestions are responsible for what you’re about to read.

Unless you don’t like it, in which case he had nothing to do with it.

John Sheehan

http://www.john-sheehan.com
@johnsheehan on Twitter

John Sheehan is the CEO of Runscope, one of my favourite new companies. Runscope is building tools around APIs, and addressing a niche that has long been underserved. John takes time out of his busy days to engage in lengthy, specific, and enormously helpful feedback sessions as a reviewer for this book. His experience with APIs and ability to identify murky or unclear explanations have been invaluable.

But when we talk about Runscope tools, it’s just because they’re some of the best on the market and what I use, personally. Not because John volunteered his time.

Promise.

Michael Mahemoff

http://mahemoff.com
@mahemoff on Twitter

Michael Mahemoff is the founder of Player.FM, a great podcasting project. He’s also one of the former Googlers behind the developer experience movement, and an expert in the field of APIs. Michael kindly volunteered to write a foreword for this little project, which made me fangirl a little. He took it a step further, however, and agreed to write the foreword as I wrote the book, allowing Leanpub customers to see the evolution of the foreword as it is written. Which is super cool.