Acknowledgments

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First off, I would like to thank New Riders Publishing for taking a chance on a new author, and immeasurable thanks to my Development Editor, Laura Loveall, for her patience and guidance throughout the entire process. I would also like to thank Ann Quinn and Stephanie Wall for their help and guidance.

An equal heaping helping of thanks goes out to my tech editors, John Dean and Hang Lau, who kept me from making some really inexcusable errors in front of the whole world. Any other errors or omissions are my responsibility, and mine alone.

Additionally, there are a number of point problem solvers who stepped in and helped me with some very thorny issues as this book was in development. Special thanks go out to: Havoc Pennington at Red Hat, Monty Widenius at MySQL, Tor Lilqvist for his work to port GTK+ and Gimp to Windows, and Jan Dvorak who provided the libmysqlclient.a file to finish out Chapter 13, Compiling the Key Business Indicators Application. Also thanks to Paul DuBois, author of MySQL (the seminal work on the subject), for his help in the early stages of this book.

I would also like to acknowledge everyone who has contributed to Linux, any open source project, and especially the tools used in this book.

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