Acknowledgements
I wish to thank the following people for their help in the preparation of various versions
of this text: Douglas McCormick, Jim Scharf, Henry Tabickman, Dick Fritz, Steve Levy,
To ny Ianinno, and Ken Brown. I also want to thank Henry Mullish of New York
University for teaching me so much about writing and for getting me started in the
publishing business.
From Sams Publishing, I’d like to thank my development editor Mark Renfrow and
my project editor Dan Knott.Thanks also to my copy editor, Karen Annett, and my
technical editor, Bradley Jones. Finally, I’d like to thank all the other people from Sams
who were involved on this project, even if I did not work with them directly.00 0672326663 fm 6/10/04 2:04 PM Page xix