Acknowledgments
I have been very fortunate to be given the opportunity to work with professionals from Wiley to help me create this book.
Jim Minatel, associate publisher at John Wiley & Sons, first reached out to me in the summer of 2023. Thank you for the opportunity, Jim, and to your assistant, Sara Deichman. It was an absolute pleasure to work with editors Brad Jones, Joyce Neilsen, Magesh Elangovan, Pavithra Sankar, Satish Gowrishankar, and everybody else at Wiley. Thank you all for helping me produce a much better book than I would have on my own. I am eternally grateful to everybody at Wiley. A special thank you to Brad and Joyce, who put up with me and my hard head and really pushed me to write a better book.
To my very good friend Media Baldwin, who was gracious enough to write the foreword of this book, even though she had her hands quite full, I am very thankful. Much love.
To my immediate family, Mary Caviston, Vincent Fragale, Jeanne Keller, Melissa Caviston, Jim and Carol Brill, John Caviston, Sean, Emily, Teddy, Louis and Rose Caviston, much love.
To all other friends and family, much love.
I am thankful for the computer classes I took at Central High School (class 241) in Philadelphia and LaSalle University in Philadelphia way back in the late 70s and 80s. I was hooked right from the beginning.
Thank you to all of you who are reading this book. I appreciate every one of you.
—Tom Fragale