To my wife who for some strange reason didn’t think it was a bad idea for me to completely switch career paths and to teach myself how to program ten years ago, thank you for your support and patience. You are wonderful.

And to my geek friends and coworkers who helped me the most in this programming adventure in the very beginning, Kris Pate, Jeremy Mayhew, Jeff Hamm, Shawn Lohstroh, Mark Reed, Brad Sprague, Xander Sherry, and Bryan Pierce. Without you this would have been so much harder. You answered a lot of stupid questions, gave lots of suggestions for improvement, and never told me that I couldn’t figure this stuff out.

—Eric Sowell