Acknowledgments

First, I would like to thank the Apress team, in particular: Lead Editor Steve Anglin, for getting me on board and giving me the chance to work with Apress; Coordinating Editors Anamika Panchoo and Mark Powers for keeping me on track; Development Editor Chris Nelson for teaching me a lot about writing; Technical Editor Larry Pace for making many valuable suggestions to improve the quality of the book; and the many others whom I have not met but I can see have done a great job helping to create the finished product.

I would also like to thank to Andrés Barnett, James Sedgwick, and Therese Stukel for providing data for the examples, and my husband Timothy Baldock and friends Jemma-Kay Johnstone, Christopher Gilmour, Nina Farrell, Chris Brown, Artur Kyral, and Eddie Chung, who have all helped with the project in its early stages.