Acknowledgments for the First Edition

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Thanks to Peg Kovar for her proofreading and editing help. Special thanks to Dale Dougherty for ripping apart my first book and forcing me to put it together correctly. I greatly appreciate the hard work put in by Phil Straite and Gregory Satir. I especially thank all those people who reviewed and edited my book. My thanks also go to the production group at O'Reilly & Associates ”Nicole Gipson, project manager and production editor; John Files, Juliette Muellner, and Jane Ellin, production assistants; and Mike Sierra, book design implementor. Finally, special thanks go to all the hard-working programmers out there whose code has taught me so much.

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