Acknowledgments

We wish to thank all the many reviewers, colleagues, and others who have read and commented on our early chapter drafts, especially Aaron Colcord, Aaron Schumacher, Ambikesh Jayal, Bryce Darling, Dwight Barry, Fred Rahmanian, Hans Donner, Jeelani Basha, Justin Fister, Dr. Kostas Passadis, Leo Polovets, Marius Butuc, Nathanael Adams, Nezih Yigitbasi, Pablo Vaselli, Peter Rabinovitch, Ravishankar Rajagopalan, Rodrigo Abreu, Romit Singhai, Sampath Chaparala, and Zekai Otles. Their comments, questions, and corrections have greatly improved this book. Special thanks to George Gaines for his thorough technical review of the manuscript shortly before it went into production.

We especially would like to thank our development editor, Cynthia Kane, for all her advice and patience as she shepherded us through the writing process. The same thanks go to Benjamin Berg, Katie Tennant, Kevin Sullivan, and all the other editors at Manning who worked hard to smooth out the rough patches and technical glitches in our text.

In addition, we’d like to thank our colleague David Steier, Professors Anno Saxenian and Doug Tygar from UC Berkeley’s School of Information Science, as well as all the other faculty and instructors who have reached out to us about the possibility of using this book as a teaching text.