Acknowledgments
The process of writing a technical book is more a matter of collaboration, support, and team work, than a single wordsmith sitting under a shade tree with parchment and pen. It is amazing how many people know about your subject after you begin the process.
I am very fortunate to have assembled a team of friends and well wishers over the past few years to assist, cajole, exhort, and inspire the words to appear. First and foremost is my wife Teresa. She has had the great fortune of reading 10 technical books in the past 11 years, while at the same time putting up with the inevitable encroachment of deadlines on our otherwise well timed vacation schedule. Claudette Moore of the Moore Literary Agency has done an awesome job of keeping me busy through all her work with the publishers. Martin DelRe at Microsoft Press has been a great supporter of scripting technology, and is a great person to talk to. Maureen Zimmerman, also of Microsoft Press, has done a great job of keeping me on schedule, and has made numerous suggestions to the improvement of the manuscript.
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