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Acknowledgments

For a variety of reasons, this book was challenging to write. I extend my biggest debt of gratitude to my valiant and open-minded editors, Rick Kughen and Mark Renfrow. Thanks also to my publishers, Greg Wiegand and Paul Boger—you guys are great. Thank you to the always helpful and efficient Pearson production and administrative staff, including Kristen Watterson, Betsy Gratner, and Kristy Hart.

Technical books like this put a special burden on its content editors. Thanks so much to Patrick Mangan, my technical editor, and to Karen Annett, my copyeditor, for your thoroughness in making the manuscript as best as it can be.

Thanks to my family—Susan, Zoey, and our menagerie of pets—for putting up with my occasional grumpiness as ...