Acknowledgments


I have a wonderful familymy beloved wife, Katherine, and my dear children, Lizzie, Jacob, and Lukewho all supported me in writing this book and then left me alone, except when they didn't. My mother, Susan, is all I could ask for, and much more. May the love of God rest and remain with you always, and thank you.

I have also enjoyed numerous conversations with insightful colleagues and friends, especially Bill Willcox, Steve Colyvas, and the brothers Josh and Alex Siegel. My father-in-law, Joe Baginski, had an amazing 42 years of relevant development experience with IBM, and I don't think there's much in this book that will catch him unawares. I particularly appreciated two years of carpooling with Tim Kolar, Lol Grant, and Derek Godfrey. They finally convinced me that not everything has to have an analogy, and I believe this book feels better for that, metaphorically speaking. I also want to thank my colleagues at Trapeze Networks and Venturi Wireless for their understanding when I was sometimes mentally absent while writing this book.

At O'Reilly, I am grateful to Mike Hendrickson for taking on this unexpected book, and to my editor Andrew Odewahn, who has opened my eyes to the wonder that is professional editing. My thanks to Andrew Savikas for describing the O'Reilly documentation environment, and to Mary O'Brien, Rob Romano, and Abby Fox for all their work in making this book what it is.

My thanks to Hugh Doar, Marie Godfrey, Jeff Jahr, Karl Klashinsky, Peter Miller, and Dan Shahin for their helpful comments on different parts of the book. Thanks to Steve Reinheimer too for his help with the reviews. I'm particularly grateful to Mark Baushke, Steven Knight, and Steve Loughran for their extensive comments, which covered the whole book. Any errors that remain are, of course, solely mine.

As I was researching this book, I was struck by the differences between 2005 and the early 1990s when I was researching material for my PhD thesis. There were a few specialized research sites available then, but not very many. Then! Yahoo! arrived! closely followed by Gooooogle. While by no means all-seeing, Google certainly found plenty of opinions about everything in this book, so thanks to the people who created and maintain it.

For the necessary stimulants to keep me going when writing the book was hard, I'd like to thank the Coca-Cola Company for its caffeine, the plantations of Arturo Fuente for their nicotine, and the Laphroaig distillery for its alcohol.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Winston Churchill




Practical Development Environments
Practical Development Environments
ISBN: 0596007965
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 150

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