Colophon

Colophon

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Abby Fox was the production editor and copyeditor for Practical Development Environments . Matt Hutchinson proofread the book. Sanders Kleinfeld and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Johnna VanHoose Dinse wrote the index.

MendeDesign designed and created the cover artwork of this book. Karen Montgomery produced the cover layout with Adobe InDesign CS using the Akzidenz Grotesk and Orator fonts.

The animals on the cover of Practical Development Environments are goldfish (Carassius auratus). Goldfish can in fact be gold, orange, white, black, blue, brown, silver, bronze, and red. Moderately hardy, goldfish have an average life span of around 10 years. The oldest goldfish on record lived for over 43 years.

The early history of the cultivation of goldfish is unclear, but it is generally accepted that by the time of the Sung dynasty (960-1280), goldfish were being bred in China. However, it was not until around 1500 that goldfish first appeared in Japan, and they did not find their way into Europe until the seventeenth century.

Marcia Friedman designed the interior layout. Melanie Wang and Phyllis McKee designed the interior template. This book was converted by Keith Fahlgren to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Adobe's Meridien; the heading font is ITC Bailey; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano, Jessamyn Read, and Lesley Borash using Macromedia FreeHand MX and Adobe Photoshop CS.

The ichthyographic portion of this colophon was written by the book's author. The word colophon is derived from the Greek kolophon, meaning "summit" or "finishing touch."

The online edition of this book was created by the Digital Books production group (John Chodacki, Ken Douglass, and Ellie Cutler) using a set of Frame-to-XML conversion and cleanup tools written and maintained by Erik Ray, Benn Salter, John Chodacki, Ellie Cutler, and Jeff Liggett.