Acknowledgments

As with any new undertaking, you never know what you’re getting yourself into when you write a book for the first time. Fortunately, we had a great team at Manning to guide us through the process and help us create something we can be proud of. We would like to thank everyone involved in the production of this book. Particular thanks go to our development editor, Cynthia Kane, who put up with late-night telephone conferences and kept our motivation high. Our copy editor, Andy Carroll, did a marvelous job of tightening up our prose, and he picked up a number of ambiguities and inconsistencies.

We hope that everything in this book is 100 percent accurate, but that would have been difficult to achieve without Burt Beckwith’s eagle eyes. He kept us honest, picking up technical errors and ambiguities. We’d also like to thank our reviewers for taking the time to send detailed feedback on the manuscript at various stages in its development: Josh Reed, Paul Stusiak, Bill Fly, Kenneth DeLong, Lester Lobo, Peter Johnson, Robert O’Connor, Joe McTee, Jonas Bandi, Tim Moore, Carol McDonald, Dave Klein, Doug Warren, Gordon Dickens, John Guthrie, John G. Ledo, Kenrick Chien, Lee Butts, Mark Eagle, Paul King, Robert Fletcher, and Zan Thrash.