Acknowledgments

We’d like to thank Trinity Trahan for her contributions to this book. It is a pleasure to work with such a multifaceted, super talented colleague who is willing to jump in to any project to help. She provided developer examples, review and perspective that we have used in this book. We would also like to thank Lonny Lippod for his tireless support of the Virtual Server’s we used throughout the project and his extensive knowledge of SharePoint topologies, installations and configurations. He built and upgraded servers from SharePoint Beta 1 through RTM each time they were released.

Thanks to Stuart McDonald for contributing his expertise to Chapter 11 – Web content management. We’ve worked with Stuart for years and it was a great to work with him again on this project. In addition, we’d like to thank our entire extended Avitiva team for making this book possible. It is so cool to work with a team of people who are so talented and capable and independent. Only through the efforts of the whole company were we able to spend the necessary time to write this book because we knew everything else was in good hands.

We’d also like to thank our family and friends for their support and patience as we’ve worked on this book. It has been an endeavor that has taken a lot of time out of our personal lives and we apologize for the missed walks, talks and other fun activities. Thank you for standing by us as we fretted and labored on this effort.

Our customers provide a constant impetus for growth, challenge, and excellence and we’d like to acknowledge their contribution to this book. Without the myriad of interesting and fun people that hire us to create “something” with SharePoint, we would lack a great deal of perspective and sense of possibility.

Thank you to everyone at Wiley who made this book happen. Kim Spilker, our acquisitions editor, has been a great cheerleader and guide throughout the process.