Acknowledgments

Many thanks go to Lisa McClain and Alex McDonald at McGraw-Hill/Osborne for their tireless work on this project; Claire Splan who efficiently moved this text through copyedit to production; and A. Scott Mikolaitis, a key Oracle Technology Resource, who provided invaluable feedback in his technical edit and review of the text.

Thanks to Luxi Chidambaran, Srinath Krishnaswamy, Christopher Jones, Shoaib Lari, and Richard Rendell from Oracle Development, who ran down OCI issues and provided answers to questions. Special thanks to Christopher Jones for reviewing and suggesting ideas while outlining the book.

Special thanks to Joseph McLaughlin who wrote Appendix A, “HTML Tag Index,” and the first draft for Appendix E, “POSIX File Functions.”

Thanks to BYU – Idaho Computer Information Technology Department faculty, and students who took an interest in the book and programming language—Craig Haessig, Benjamin Howard, and Brian Vance.

Finally, no acknowledgement would be complete without thanking the production department. Thanks to the production department for their conscientious attention to detail and hard work in putting all the pieces together.