Acknowledgments

Thanks to David Lazar and David Fries at Microsoft as well as Steve Orr, Matthew MacDonald, and Jeff Maggard for reviewing parts of this book. The folks in the developer's community and those who downloaded draft versions of these chapters from my site have also contributed by asking questions that I then had to answer.

I'd also like to single out Simon St.Laurent and John Osborn, my editors at O'Reilly. Simon is a writer in his own right and it was a pleasure working with him. John is a fellow Wombat from DEC and he got this title rolling.

My family helped, too: Trish through her patience, Dorian and Sophia by laughing at my jokes, and Joey by taking me on walkies.