Acknowledgements
THIS BOOK IS THE RESULT of a journey through IT that started in 1976. As a seventh grader, my junior high had 110-baud teletype access to the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium time-sharing systems (Univac, Control Data, and Hewlett Packard), where I first was exposed to computer programming (although my interest was more in the online chat capability, known as XTalk, that existed even then).
In 1986, I received as a gift Intel 8088 IBM PC (with two floppy drives) from my mother. My journey then proceeded through end user, power user, support staff, programmer of desktop databases, networking, IT manager, enterprise system consultant, software developer, information architect, metadata and configuration manager, and ...
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