This book is the result of considerable effort by many people, and I owe a debt of gratitude to each one.
In particular, I would like to thank Executive Editor Steve Weiss, for going to great lengths to help me bring this book from an idea to a reality, and publisher Tim O’Reilly, for offering me the opportunity to work with O’Reilly Media. A number of other people made extraordinarily valuable contributions to this project, including copyeditor Linley Dolby, technical editor Bonnie Blake, editorial assistant Michele Filshie, senior technical illustrator Robert Romano, Zed Saeed who wrote the exceptional forward, and the many other people who worked with me to make this book worth reading. Thank you all very much and I look forward to working with you again soon.
I’d also like to thank my agent, Margot Maley Hutchison at Waterside Productions. I have no doubt that this book would not exist without your help.
In addition, I’d like to thank Jan L. Plass and Francine Shuchat Shaw for continually going out of their way to help me in my post-graduate work at NYU, and I’d also like to thank everyone else who has helped me at one point or another in my career. There are far too many to list individually, but I would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge the work and energy of Michael W. Dean.
Most of all I would like to thank all my friends who have been such a big part of my life for so long, and a few new ones (especially ma cherie So-Young, la co-star de mon film de Disney).
Ian David Aronson
New York City, 2005
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