Acknowledgments

The rules contained within this book weren’t developed by our partnership alone. They are the result of nearly 60 years of work with clients, colleagues, and partners within nearly 200 companies, divisions, and organizations. Each of them contributed, in varying degrees, to some or all of the rules within this book. As such, we would like to acknowledge the contributions of our friends, partners, clients, coworkers, and bosses for whom or with which we’ve worked over the past several (combined) decades.

We would also like to acknowledge and thank the editors who have provided guidance, feedback, and project management. Our technical editors Geoffrey Weber, Jeremy Wright, and Robert Guild shared with us their combined decades of technology experience and provided invaluable insight. Our editors from Addison-Wesley, Songlin Qiu and Trina MacDonald, provided supportive stylistic and rhetorical guidance throughout every step of this project. Thank you all for helping with this project.

Last but certainly not least we’d like to thank our families and friends who put up with our absence from social events to sit in front of a computer screen and write. No undertaking of this magnitude is done single-handedly, and without our families’ and friends’ understanding and support this would have been a much more arduous journey.