Acknowledgments

This book is based upon the experiences teaching a five-day class at The Big Nerd Ranch called Advanced Mac OS X Bootcamp. The patience and curiousity of my students has made this a more complete and comprehensible introduction to the plumbing that makes Mac OS X a reliable, flexible, and high-performance system.

Special thanks go to Jeremy Sherman. Jeremy stepped up and taught one of the Advanced Bootcamps when I was unable to so. Along the way he made numerous improvements to this book and associated course materials, helping to modernize and robusticize the code. Jeremy is also responsible for the excellent under-the-hoods look at Blocks.

Incredible thanks go to Aaron Hillegass, my co-author on the first two editions of this ...

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