Acknowledgments

It’s an honor to work with a highly respected publisher like Que. We are grateful to our editor-in-chief, Greg Wiegand, and executive editor, Rick Kughen, who played matchmaker and shepherd and brought together a great team to write and produce this book. We thank Faithe Wempen for her insight and attention to detail in development and editing, Chuck Hutchinson, for copy editing, and Tonya Simpson, for keeping everyone on track and making the production process seem effortless. Don’t let those job descriptions fool you—at Que at least, titles such as “development editor” and “copy editor” don’t begin to describe the breadth of the contributions that each team member makes to each book.

We’d also like to acknowledge the support of our technical editor, Karen Weinstein, who meticulously checked every detail and tried every procedure. Then, there is an entire army of people who labor largely unseen and unthanked—the people who do the real work—the editorial, indexing, layout, art, proofing, and other production staff at Que. And finally, thanks to everyone from the marketing and sales folks at Que to the booksellers who ensured that this book made it from the printing press to your hands.

We also thank Maureen Maloney at Waterside Productions for great work in taking care of the legal mumbo jumbo part of the book business.