Making Things Happen

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For this revised edition

Thanks to the O’Reilly crew of Mary Treseler, Marlowe Shaeffer, Sara Peyton, and Rob Romano. Kudos to Faisal Jawdat, Neil Enns, David Gobert, Linda Lee, Ken Norton, Linda Whitesell, and Steven Levy for long hours reviewing the first edition and suggesting changes. And thanks to everyone who bought the first edition, helped to spread the word, and made this first update possible.

From the previous edition

Big thanks to Mike Hendrickson, my editor at O’Reilly, for giving me the green light and plenty of rope. Superior grade thanks to Faisal Jawdat, Ben Lieberman, and Andrew Stellman, the brave and generous tech reviewers of the early drafts.

The making of this book involved many people: thanks to Marlowe Shaeffer (production editor) for managing the project that is this book, Marcia Friedman (interior designer), Rob Romano (illustrator), Jeremy Mende (cover designer), Audrey Doyle (proofreader), Ellen Troutman-Zaig (indexer), and Glenn Bisignani (product marketing manager).

The following people volunteered their time to be interviewed, or to give feedback on early drafts of chapters. Muchos gracias to Michelle Breman, Pierro Sierra, Eric Brechner, Richard Stoakley, Mark Stutzman, Neil Enns, Jason Pace, Aly Valli, Joe Belfiore, Bill Staples, Laura John, Hillel Cooperman, Stacia Scott, Gwynne Stoddart, Terri Bronson, Barbara Wilson, Terrel Lefferts, Mike Glass, Chromatic, and Richard Grudman. Special thanks to Ken Dye, my first manager at Microsoft, ...