I would like to thank Andrew Sun for suggesting this book. Andrew’s work on PPP was not only an inspiration but also a model for my endeavors on this text. Mark H. Degner, Edgar Danielyan, and especially Elsa Lankford made some key suggestions on improving the technical content.
Rachel Wheeler served as a very gracious Production Editor, coordinating the details that were essential to producing the book on time. Thanks also to Jessamyn Read, the O’Reilly Illustrator who transformed my rough sketches into the figures you’ll find in this book.
As the first editor, Mike Loukides helped define the organization and content of the book. Jim Sumser took over from Mike partway through the project. Jim helped me see the work in perspective and led me through the mire of the detailed work. I want to thank Jim for the patience with which he worked with me. Everything that could prevent me from getting to the book seemed to happen: even I did not believe it would get done, but somehow Jim believed in it. I must have worked through two summers with him, for I remember him talking about two very sweet crops from his cherry tree.
Writing this book was a long, winding road that led me away from my loved ones on many an evening. I have missed Char, my wife, all those evenings when I was locked away somewhere, rewriting a chapter. I am not sure how much Char missed me, but she certainly missed having me around to look after Lucas and Theo, who are quite young and absolutely adorable to be around.
This last piece of this book is being written in the weeks after September 11, 2001. Much of this book was written around the World Trade Center: in it, under it, in its shadow, looking up at it, in a bus traveling to it, in a subway moving away from it, under the influence of coffee bought there, while waiting to meet my family in a nearby park. The Towers symbolize a time of freedom and innocence. We live in a different era now, and I have come to think of this book as belonging to that era of freedom and happiness and innocence.
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