Acknowledgments

First and foremost, I need to thank my family. Without their support and patience, I would never be able to work on projects like this.

They say it takes a village to produce a book, and it always amazes me at the number of people who are involved. I have been fortunate to work with a great Sybex crew yet again. Kim Wimpsett was the development editor. Thanks, Kim, for keeping me on track, aware of the rules, and partially sane! Kenyon Brown is the acquisitions editor for this book—thank you, Kenyon, for asking me to take on this book.

In addition, Dassi Zeidel was an excellent production editor; I have had the pleasure of working with her before, and I appreciate her attention to detail. Scott Johnson was my technical editor—Scott, it was really good to get to work with you again. To Linda Recktenwald, the copy editor, thank you so much for dealing with my consistent grammar mistakes. I may not have the best grammar, but at least I am consistent about it!