Thank You

Special thanks to the editor of this edition, Wendy Sharp, Senior Acquisitions Editor, for her helpful editorial direction and words of encouragement. A huge thank you to Andreas Heim, Director of Technology, Smashing Ideas, for doing an incredibly thorough and thoughtful technical edit, answering questions, and offering tips and advice along the way. Kudos to copy editor Tiffany Taylor, for rooting out my unnecessary words and lapses of grammar and style, and to production coordinators Pat Christenson and Lupe Edgar, and Owen Wolfson for making these pages clean and clear.

A tip of the hat to those whose various forms of assistance in past editions still echo in this one: Brad Bechtel, Lisa Brazieal, Erika Burback, Jeremy Clark, Cliff Colby, Peter Alan Davy, Jane DeKoven, Jonathan Duran, Victor Gavenda, Suki Gear, Becky Morgan, Erica Norton, Christi Payne, Janice Pearce, Nancy Reinhardt, Sharon Selden, Kathy Simpson, James Talbot, Bentley Wolfe, and Lisa Young.

And finally, heartfelt thanks to Marjorie Baer, Executive Acquisitions and Development Editor, Peachpit Press, for her supportive friendship and for bringing me to this project in the first place.