Acknowledgments

To Michael Nolan for connecting me with New Riders as well as helping me solidify the concept of the book early on. Similarly, big thanks also go to the late, great Marjorie Baer for her guidance at the beginning of the project.

To Dave Roberts for stealing second.

To everyone at Peachpit who was involved in this book in some way, but especially Rebecca Gulick for steering the entire project, making the entire process as smooth as possible.

To Ethan Marcotte for being an excellent technical editor on the first edition. It was great to work with Ethan on this, and his comments and insight were invaluable. Thanks also to Virginia DeBolt for tech-editing the second edition and Patrick H. Lauke for tech-editing the third edition.

To my colleagues who continue to provide inspiration, sharing their techniques and knowledge, on and off line. This book wouldn’t have been written if it weren’t for the previous work of the following (as well as many more who I’m forgetting to mention here): John Allsopp, Dan Benjamin, Holly Bergevin, Douglas Bowman, Andy Budd, Tantek Çelik, Joe Clark, Andy Clarke, Mike Davidson, Todd Dominey, Jason Fried, John Gallant, Patrick Griffiths, Jon Hicks, Molly Holzschlag, Shaun Inman, Ryan Irelan, Richard Ishida, Roger Johansson, Jeremy Keith, Ian Lloyd, Drew McLellan, Eric Meyer, Cameron Moll, Matt Mullenweg, Mark Newhouse, Dunstan Orchard, Veerle Pieters, D. Keith Robinson, Richard Rutter, Jason Santa Maria, Christopher Schmitt, Dave Shea, R....