Dedication

To all who share my dream, and are working to help make it happen …

… the dream of a world where your work, your colleagues, and your opportunities in life are not dictated by where you live or how far you commute. Where the old-fashioned office of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has passed into history, along with its soul-destroying bums-on-seats culture and Dilbertian work practices. A world inclusive of those who cannot work in a standard office. A world inclusive of those who reject car-dependence, but embrace a full and active life. A world inclusive of those who seek to fit study and learning into a busy life, yet have no accessible library, let alone university. Of those who are housebound …

Our information infrastructure is poised to liberate us all. We who develop with Apache are playing a small but exciting part in that. This work is dedicated to all of us!