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Acknowledgments

My first tip o' the hat goes to my editor, Kelly Talbot of Wiley, who received all my raving, meandering prose and actually carved a book out of it. Although I kvetched a bit, he was a calm and steady hand navigating this project to a successful completion. (Yes, it's true, I did call him a slave driver in the heat of the moment. Yes, he is one of the most organized editors I've ever had the pleasure to work with. Other authors, take note. The editor is always right.)

The second acknowledgment goes to Ed Finkler, who pored over every line of code and made incredibly insightful remarks throughout. Despite the fact that he received the manuscript at quite an advanced stage, he bravely ordered a whole series of changes in order to bring my game up. He followed this up with a tenacious immunity to my whining and crying, and then nodded and patted my head when I finally came around to his point of view. Any technical difficulties you may have with the code are totally his fault. (Just kidding! Seriously, he's forgotten more than I'll ever know about software, and without him, this book would have been quite different.)

Neil Salkind, my agent, is a pearl beyond price. He's the kind of guy who will quietly listen to your half-baked ideas and help you shape them into a real pitch that will actually get a publisher's attention. Without him, I'd just be another guy with dreams of authorship and nothing to his credit.

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