Modding Mac OS X

Acknowledgments

This book couldn’t have been written without the help and encouragement of many others. Thanks to Neil Salkind, my wonderful agent, and Chuck Toporek, my excellent editor. I also appreciate the support of those persons and corporations who supplied me with answers and software for the development of this book. Thanks to Bill Cheeseman of PreFab Software and Quechee Software; Gerd Knops of BitArt; John Kirk of CE Soft (QuicKeys); Mihai Parparita of Mscape Software; and Hannah Rooks of Script Software. Thanks also to my amazing team of beta testers, who worked through and corrected many of the projects in this book: Adam Lindsay, Andrea Agyga, Bahi Para, Douglas Stetner, Dennis dwgphx, John “Elio” Bernardi, Evan Berkowitz, Frank x104, Ken Williams, Kevin Stevens, Matthew Gallagher, “paintvt,” and Zach Gafford. A special thanks to Paul Wood, Cap’n Hector, and Chris Meijburg, who were testers beyond compare. Their valuable feedback and insight helped many of these chapters take shape.

Thank you, too, to the production team at O’Reilly, who turned this book into a reality, and to Tim O’Reilly, who gave this book the green light.

Thanks as well to my supportive family, to Sally Stieglitz, Barbara Liebman, Ethel and Bernard Liebman, to Hayden Starr, to Jody Mathie and everyone at Cherry Creek Pediatrics, to Jennifer Smith, Allison Toom and Denver Options, to the librarians at the Virginia Village and Schlessman Family libraries, to Mindy Hecht and Ellen Rievman, and to the entire staff at the BMH-BJ Preschool. I couldn’t have done it without you all.