Acknowledgments

Thanks very much to my sweetie, Nancy, who put up with the long hours involved in writing this book. Thank you, honey!

Thanks to Alaric Snell, Mary Fernandez, Ashok Malhotra, and Jim Melton, for making the time to review the manuscript.

And thanks to everyone at Sams: Todd Green, Songlin Qiu, Elizabeth Finney, Margaret Berson, and all the other editors who worked on this book.