Torsten Uhlmann - Instant Lift Web Applications

Torsten Uhlmann is a German-based freelance Software Craftsman, a husband, and a dad, no dog. He has worked on numerous medium to large software projects over the course of nearly two decades. He has gained insight into many different technologies, from Cobol to Ruby, from Oracle to MongoDB, from programming CICS terminals to developing scalable web applications using a wide range of different technologies.

A few years back he fell in love with Scala as a very expressive language that challenged many of the things he thought he knew about software design. He joined the growing number of Lift committers contributing a port of a showcase application to Java in an effort to open up the framework for multiple programming languages. To this day he greatly enjoys writing performant and scalable Lift applications for his clients, one of them being the secure private network sgrouples.com.

Torsten's home on the We is http://www.agynamix.de.

I'd like to thank my wife Silvia for her patience and strong support during the long hours when this book was created. While I sat down having fun writing it, she took care of the real life around us. Thank you for being the great companion and friend God has given to me.

A magnificent thank-you goes to David Pollak, Richard Dallaway, Diego Medina, and Marius Danciu for taking time reviewing the book and making sure what I write is true.

The entire Lift mailing list also deserves a huge thank-youthis is an awesome place to ask questions and get help!

Mark Weinstein, CEO of Sgrouples, thank you so much for allowing me to write this book while we were super busy building our gorgeous application!

And last but certainly not least, I would like to thank the team at Packt Publishing. It was a pleasure working with my reviewers, Meeta Rajani and Priya Sharma. Thank you for the awesome experience!

Richard Dallaway is a partner at Underscore Consulting, the UK's leading Scala consultancy, where he specializes in delivering client projects using Scala and Lift. His background is in machine learning applied in the finance, manufacturing, retail, and publishing industries. He is a Lift committer, focusing on the module system, and writes for The Lift Cookbook.

Marius Danciu has been a full-time programmer for the last 10 years. He discovered Scala in 2007/2008 and also learned a great deal of functional programming through Scala. Coming from the world of imperative languages (C/C++, Java), he found functional programming an epiphany. Since then, Marius joined the Lift team working on core parts of the Lift framework. This has been an outstanding experience and motivated him to learn more Scala, functional programming, and more mathematics. However, at his job he doesn't do a lot of Scala coding but works on growing the Scala adoption. Still, he's doing interesting stuff in the area of distributed computing and MapReduce, functional DSL language design, and so on.

Marius is also a co-author on the book The Definitive Guide to Lift: A Scala-based Web Framework, Apress .

Diego Medina lives on the mountains of North Carolina with his wife, 2-year old daughter, and their cat. He has been a developer for the past 11 years, and his focus has been on web development, and more specifically, web security.

He is a proud Lift committer and a very active member of the Lift community, answering questions on the mailing list, as well as writing articles on his personal blog.

He currently holds the position of developer in the R&D department at Elemica Inc., where they are using Lift and Scala as main technologies for the next generation of their platform.

I would like to thank Torsten Uhlmann for the opportunity to review such a great book; he has done a great job.