Acknowledgments

I have to acknowledge the determination and god-like patience of Tom Cirtin, my development editor at MTP, and Jen Garrett, our editorial coordinator. On a professional level, they made me do it. And do it. And do it. The reviewers, David Lewis (Mr. SoapBox) and Mark Sandberg (Mr. Laconic), played complementary (if not always complimentary) roles in keeping me honest and real. Dion Hinchcliffe, a senior architect at T. Rowe Price in Baltimore, provided the original version of a large percentage of the more technical patterns here, as well as the initial idea for the book, although one I've deviated from enormously.