We would like to acknowledge the advice and help provided by Amit Ghodake, our Commissioning Editor at Packt Publishing, as well as the support of Michelle Quadros, our Project Coordinator, who ensured that we kept to schedule. A special thanks to our technical reviewers, Deborah A. Dahl and Greg Milette, whose comments and careful reading of the first draft of the book enabled us to make numerous changes in the final version that have greatly improved the quality of the book.
Finally, we would like to acknowledge our partners Sandra McTear and David Griol for putting up with our absences while we devoted so much of our time to writing, and sharing the stress of our tight schedule.