Acknowledgments for the First Edition

Thanks to Peg Kovar for her proofreading and editing help. Special thanks to Dale Dougherty for ripping apart my first book and forcing me to put it together correctly. I greatly appreciate the hard work put in by Phil Straite and Gregory Satir. I especially thank all those people who reviewed and edited my book. My thanks also go to the production group at O'Reilly & Associates—Nicole Gipson, project manager and production editor; John Files, Juliette Muellner, and Jane Ellin, production assistants; and Mike Sierra, book design implementor. Finally, special thanks go to all the hard-working programmers out there whose code has taught me so much.