About the Author
Ryan Baldwin is a theatre major turned computer science geek. Hailing from the
prairies of Western Canada, Ryan has been developing software on a wide array of
platforms and technologies since 2001. Once, he wrote a crazy system application that
compiled XSD Schema Docs into XAML forms that performed two-way binding with
underlying XML documents in .NET WPF. Why? Because it had to be done. Another
time, he worked on a project that mashed many social networks into one gigantic
thing that essentially allowed users to nd out all of their indirect connections.
It was eventually shelved.
In 2012, he relocated to Toronto, where he works with the University Health Network,
developing systems and tools that facilitate patient information exchange. You can
often nd him wearing headphones and jittering in coffee shops.
I'd like to thank Packt for giving me this opportunity and Dmitri
Sotnikov for pushing me to do it. Without either of you, I probably
would have gotten a lot more sleep and a lot less experience out of
life. I'd also like to thank Chris Kay Fraser, without whose support
and vegan brownies I would have never had the condence to
pursue such a project. I'd nally like to thank my family, friends,
colleagues, and anybody else who interacted with me over these
past several months; I'll buy you a "thank you" beer for putting up
with me. All my reviewers who took the time to read, recheck, and
provide essential feedback, I owe all of you at least a pitcher of beer
(hit me up next time you're in Toronto). And, of course, I'd like
to thank you, dear readers; without you, none of this would have
happened. I am both humbled and terried of you.
