Acknowledgments

This book, by its nature, is the collected wisdom of many hundreds of people, and we are deeply grateful to all of them.

Many people within Microsoft have worked long and hard, over a period of years, proposing, debating, and finally writing many of these guidelines. Although it is impossible to name everyone who has been involved, a few deserve special mention: Chris Anderson, Erik Christensen, Jason Clark, Joe Duffy, Patrick Dussud, Anders Hejlsberg, Jim Miller, Michael Murray, Lance Olson, Eric Gunnerson, Dare Obasanjo, Steve Starck, Kit George, Mike Hillberg, Greg Schecter, Mark Boulter, Asad Jawahar, Justin Van Patten, and Mircea Trofin.

We’d also like to thank the annotators: Mark Alcazar, Chris Anderson, Christopher Brumme, Pablo Castro, Jason Clark, Steven Clarke, Joe Duffy, Patrick Dussud, Kit George, Jan Gray, Brian Grunkemeyer, Eric Gunnerson, Phil Haack, Anders Hejlsberg, Jan Kotas, Immo Landwerth, Rico Mariani, Anthony Moore, Vance Morrison, Christophe Nasarre, Dare Obasanjo, Brian Pepin, Jon Pincus, Jeff Prosise, Brent Rector, Jeffrey Richter, Greg Schechter, Chris Sells, Steve Starck, Herb Sutter, Clemens Szyperski, Stephen Toub, Mircea Trofin, and Paul Vick. Their insights provide much needed commentary, color, humor, and history that add tremendous value to this book.

For all of the help, reviews, and support, both technical and moral, we thank Martin Heller and Stephen Toub. And for their insightful and helpful comments, we appreciate Pierre Nallet, George Byrkit, Khristof Falk, Paul Besley, Bill Wagner, and Peter Winkler.

We would also like to give special thanks to Susann Ragsdale, who turned this book from a semi-random collection of disconnected thoughts into seamlessly flowing prose. Her flawless writing, patience, and fabulous sense of humor made the process of writing this book so much easier.