Torsten UhlmannA freelance software craftsman based in Germany, Torsten Uhlmann has worked on large and medium scale software projects for nearly twenty years. He has gained insights into Cobol, Ruby, Oracle, and MongoDB as well as CIC's terminals and developing we applications. Torsten has developed a strong interest and appreciation for Scala in recent years and joined the Lift committers in an effort to open up the framework to multiple 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 web is http://www.agynamix.de.I'd like to thank my wife Silvia for her patience and strong support during the long hours in which 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. I would like to offer great thanks to David Pollak, Richard Dallaway, and Diego Medina for reviewing the book, as well as the entire Lift mailing list for helping with questions. Thanks also go to Mark Weinstein, the CEO of Sgrouples, for allowing me the time to write this book. I would like to thank Meeta and Priya from Packt. Read More Read Less