Acknowledgments
The authors of this book are a sizable and rowdy crowd, including Michael G. Solomon, Diane Barrett, K Rudolph, Neil Broom, and Ed Tittel. We’ll start off by thanking each other for hanging together, rather than separately, in compiling this second edition. Next, we’d like to thank our able and capable project managers, Mary Kyle Inks and Kim Lindros, both of whom help herd the rest of us cats across the finish line. To our Waterside agent, Carole Jelen, who help put the deal together and shot trouble whenever and wherever she saw it: Thanks, and keep up the good work! After that, it’s time for the folks at Sybex/Wiley to take a bow and accept our thanks, too: Agatha Kim, our intrepid acquisitions editor; Stef Jones, our masterful development editor; Jenni Housh, our editorial assistant and Jill of all processes and procedures; Dassi Zeidel, our amazing production editor; as well as Pete Gaughan, our dazzling editorial manager. We’re sure there are plenty of others we would be thanking, if only we knew their names and roles. Please accept this shout out, in lieu of something more personal and informed. Believe it or not, we are quite grateful! And finally, to all the vendors who contributed software, hardware, and even the rights to reproduce screenshots or photographs: Thanks for creating the technologies that helped to make this book possible, and we hope also, its contents useful. We literally could not have done it without you.
Thanks to the wonderful team that made this a fun and productive project. Mary did an outstanding job of managing the flow of tons of content and materials, as well as managing the authors and editors. Our technical editor, Neil, made all of our work better through his insightful comments and suggestions. And finally, Ed and K are both outstanding authors who make it all look easy. I’d love to work with this team again.
This book would not have been possible without the support of Mary Kyle, Michael G. Solomon, Ed Tittel, Neil Broom, John B. Ippolito, Sam Carter, and Richard Kane. I am deeply grateful for their fantastic suggestions and unbelievable patience. I am fortunate and happy to be surrounded by such great people.
Thank you to my aunt, Jeanne Starnes, for your great advice, help, and love throughout the years. Special thanks to Gary Harbin for showing me how to build my first computer—look what you started. Bryan Bain, Lee Ann Bain, David Klukowski, Kenny Wilkins, and Doug Moore, you all made my first IT job great. Thank you for helping me get started in the field. Thanks to Brad Reninger and Will Dean for working so hard every day to make TRC successful. Your professionalism, dedication, and friendship are what make the company great. It is always a pleasure to work with legal professionals as dedicated as Jennifer Georges, Brian Saulnier, Hank Fellows, and Christine Tenley. Shauna Waters, thank you for always being upbeat and for teaching me how to sell. Thanks to the wonderful people at Intelligent Computer Solutions, especially Ezra Kohavi, Gonen Ravid, San Casas, Karen Benzakein, and Viviana Meneses, who help me stay on the cutting edge of new technology in this ever-changing field. Thank you, Amber Schroader and Shannon Honea at Paraben, for all the support. And finally, thank you to Ted Augustine and Chris Brown at Technology Pathways. Chris, you have been a great friend and a wonderful mentor.