Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C

Acknowledgments

This book was a bear to write, a pachyderm to edit, and a mule to get delivered on time. However, our technical reviewers were angels throughout, patiently helping us to get the details right and to transform the manuscript from a beastly beast into a well-groomed animal. We hope the end product justifies the image that graces its cover.

Two of our reviewers must be singled out from the crowd for their extra efforts. Andrew Ford, for his amazingly concise mod_perl Quick Reference Card, and Gerald Richter, for contributing the appendix on Embperl. Our other technical reviewers, in no particular order, were Manoj Kasichainula, Jon Orwant, Mike Stok, Randal Schwartz, Mike Fletcher, Eric Cholet, Frank Cringle, Gisle Aas, Stephen Reppucci, Doug Bagley, Jim "Woody" Woodgate, Howard Jones, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Andreas Koenig, Brian Moseley, Mike Wertheim, Stas Bekman, Ask Bjoern Hansen, Jason Riedy, Nathan Torkington, Travis Broughton, Jeff Rowe, Eugenia Harris, Ken Coar, Ralf Engelschall, Vivek Khera, and Mark-Jason Dominus. Thank you, one and all.

Our editor, Linda Mui, was delightful to work with and should be a model for book editors everywhere. How she could continue to radiate an aura of calm collectedness when the book was already running three months behind schedule and showing continuing signs of slippage is beyond our ken. Her suggestions were insightful, and her edits were always right on the money. Kudos also to Rob Romano, the O'Reilly illustrator whose ...