ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We have always enjoyed training and writing, and this book gave us the opportunity to do both at the same time. Many long nights and weekends went into this book, and we hope all the hard work has created a great resource for you to use.

We cannot express enough thanks to our families—Michelle and Evan, and Lisa, Braydon, and Sydney. They have been very supportive throughout this process and put up with our not being around. We love you very much.

We would also like to thank the team at Addison-Wesley, Joan Murray and Kim Boedigheimer. We had not written a book before this one, and Joan had enough faith in us to give us the opportunity. Thanks for guiding us through the process and working with us even when things got tricky. ...

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