Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank their editor, Laura Lewin, for her steadfast good nature and adroit management of the project, as well as the entire O’Reilly staff who performed further magic on this book, including Lenny and Rob. Great expectations. We also appreciate the eclectic and effective Slashteam: Chris Nandor, Cliff Woods, Jaime McCarthy, Jonathan Pater, Patrick Galbraith, and even Rob Malda. We kid because we care. Thank you to all Slashcode.com participants, and to all of the programmers and bugfixers listed in the Slash AUTHORS file. These people do good work. Our technical reviewers offered corrections, suggestions, and polish. In no particular order, they are: the Slashteam, Jeff Bates, Alvaro del Castillo, and Aleatha Parker. Thank you.

chromatic’s Acknowledgments

Primary thanks go Jeff “Hemos” Bates and Simone Paddock, who have provided much encouragement and many opportunities. I am fortunate to work with you and am blessed to call you friends. Much thanks and love to my family, for their continued support. Thank you to my co-authors. Great work! I offer my appreciation to other folks at O’Reilly, namely Derrick and gnat. Thanks also to my professional friends, including those at Foothills, EDC, and Perlmonks, as well as the Wormies and the Farsider fans. Michelle—let’s chase the Furies with abandon. To everyone else, if you don’t find yourself within these pages in name or in spirit, look harder.

To everyone who participates in this grand meritocracy where we can write the software we use: take a chance, and show other people how they can contribute. Thanks to jlp and p5p (especially ams, jhi, and Schwern). Expect the best of people, and they will make you proud. Pass it along.

Brian “Krow” Aker’s Acknowledgments

The first person to be blamed should be Patrick, who got me into this mess in the first place. My apologies to Yazz, who I drag with me into all jobs great and small. Great respect for and a fond love of my fellow Slashdot programmers, who all easily keep me on my toes. Rob and Jeff deserve kudos for sticking with Slashdot and and not letting the Trolls get to them too much. Thanks should go to OSDN who keeps the bills paid so we get paid. I am also thankful for the constant support and bug fixes from MySQL, especially Monty, Sasha, David, and Heikki, who write a truly enterprise-worthy database and have supplied better support then any commercial vendor I have ever had the misfortune to deal with.

I would like to say that I am sorry to everyone who had to deal with other projects I work on getting shoved to the side. My dog Rosayln should be thanked for keeping my feet warm at night, and Nausicaa and Kiki the cats should be blamed for all typos. And no one should ever overlook Christine; she deals with my late-night typing and last-minute requests to review what I write way past her bedtime. I happen to love her.

Dave Krieger’s Acknowledgments

I would first and foremost like to thank Christine Peterson of Foresight Institute for her encouragement and advice in the early genesis of this book. Without her, this book would not have come to be. I’d also like to thank my co-authors for pitching in and bailing when the boat began to leak. For aid and comfort, thanks are due to Troy Hudson, Mikey “Bootkid” Miller, Ken Berry, and last and most to Rob Kinninmont, who’s twice as good as I deserve.

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