ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We, the authors of CSSLP Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition, have many individuals who we need to acknowledge—individuals without whom this effort would not have been successful. This project would not have been possible without Wendy Rinaldi, who navigated a myriad of problems, put up with delays and setbacks, and made life easier for the author team. She brought together an all-star production team that made this book possible.

The list needs to start with those folks at McGraw-Hill who worked tirelessly with the project’s authors and led us successfully through the minefield that is a book schedule and who took our rough chapters and drawings and turned them into a final, professional product we can be proud of. We thank all the good people from the Acquisitions team, Wendy Rinaldi and Claire Yee; from the Editorial and Production team, Janet Walden, Rachel Fogelberg, and Lynn M. Messina; and the composition team at Cenveo. We also thank the technical editor, Brian Barta; the copy editor, Lisa McCoy; the proofreader, Paul Tyler; and the indexer, Ted Laux, for all their attention to detail that made this a finer work after they finished with it.

We would also like to thank Mary Ann Davidson, from Oracle Corporation, as she has provided inspiration as to the importance of getting software right and the real challenges of doing it in the real world, with business and technical considerations at every turn. She championed the cause of “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of patching” while reminding us of the challenges of regression testing and the customer value of doing the right thing. The software development world needs more champions like her.