March 2009
Beginner
512 pages
18h 28m
English
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We'd like to thank all of the contributors who generously donated their time and effort: Tim O'Reilly, Scott Berkun, Mark Healey (and the rest of the folks at Media Molecule!), Bill DiPierre, Andy Lester, Keoki Andrus, Tommy Tarka, Auke Jilderda, Grady Booch, Mike Cohn, Cory Doctorow, Neil Siegel, James Grenning, Steve McConnell, Barry Boehm, Maria Penedo, Peter Glück, Karl Wiegers, Alex Martelli, Karl Fogel, Mike Collins, Karl Rehmer, Ned Robinson, Scott Ambler, Johanna Rothman, Mark Denovich, Eric Renkey, Stan Granite, Patricia Ensworth, and Andy Oram. And we are especially grateful to Tony Visconti for taking the time to talk to us.
We want to thank Trevor Field and the rest of the great people at PlayPumps International (http://www.playpumps.org) for the wonderful work that they do, as well as for Trevor's contribution to this book. Please visit the organization's website to find out why we're donating royalties from this book to them.
Finally, once again, special thanks to Nisha Sondhe for her extraordinary photography.
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