ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I THANK THE JOHN WILEY & SONS and Wrox Press editorial and production teams for their support. Especially, thank you to Robert Elliott, executive editor at Wiley, for giving me a chance to write this book, and Adaobi Obi Tulton, senior project editor at Wiley, for managing this project.

I also thank the authors of the first edition, Nicholas A. Solter and Scott J. Kleper, for doing such a great job on which I could base this second edition.

A very special thank you to my technical editor, Joseph M. Newcomer, for his meticulous technical review. His many constructive comments and ideas have certainly made this book better.

Also, a big thank you to Ordina Belgium (www.ordina.be), the company for which I was working while writing this book, for the generous support they provided me.

Of course, the support and patience of my girlfriend, Zulija N., and my nearest family, my parents and my brother, were very important in finishing this book.

Finally, I thank you, as readers, for trying this approach to professional C++ software development.