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Acknowledgments
No book is created without the help of many people. I owe a great debt of gratitude
to the many who helped create this work. Without their help and support, these
ideas would still be rattling around in my head.
Mike Loukides, my editor at O??™Reilly, was instrumental in creating the idea for this
book. He helped me understand the type of book I really wanted to write, and provided
the encouragement needed to turn sketches of ideas into prose. Mike??™s extensive knowledge
of the industry, the authorship process, and computer science in general were
invaluable.
I had an amazing team of technical reviewers, who caught many of my errors in the
manuscripts. Thanks are due to James Edward Gray II, Michael Koziarski, Leonard
Richardson, and Zed Shaw for their revisions. Any remaining errors were originated
and perpetuated on my own. (Should you find one of these errors, we??™d love to hear
about it at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510329/errata/.)
The production department at O??™Reilly was very professional and accommodating of
my odd schedule; Keith Fahlgren, Rachel Monaghan, Rob Romano, Andrew Savikas,
Marlowe Shaeffer, and Adam Witwer all helped make this book usable and attractive.
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