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Acknowledgements

Dino:

I’ll be honest: Russell Jones, my editor at O’Reilly Media, convinced me to try this project. If the book is in your hands, both some of the good and some of the bad are on him! When Russell first mentioned this book, when it was still just an idea, I first declined, making the point that I have never written a book for beginners.

But then my son, Francesco (proud and efficient coauthor), made me look at the subject from a different perspective. It was one of those powerful forms of lateral thinking that only young people can sometimes contribute. Francesco said something like, “Dad, I don’t think you only admit experts to your software design or ASP.NET MVC classes. If I were a true expert, I’d probably rarely take a class; ...