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Thanks to the many authors and contributors involved in following open-source projects, for making the free tools, for answering questions, and for writing good docs. We reused all of these programs to make this book.

Thanks to Norman Walsh [docbook] and Bob Stayton [docbookxsl] for developing and documenting a superb system of publishing tools. Thanks to the rest of the docbook community for help and guidance.

Thanks to the volunteers @debian.org for keeping Sid up to date and still stable enough to be a productive development platform. Thanks to irc.freenode.net for bringing together a lot of good brains.

Thanks to Emily Ezust for wordsmithing skills and for getting us started with Qt in the first place. Thanks to the reviewers who provided input and valuable feedback on the text: Mark Summerfield, Johan Thelin, Stephen Dewhurst, Hal Fulton, David Boddie, Andy Shaw, and Jasmin Blanchette [Blanchette08], who also taught us the Qt 4 dance! Thanks to Matthias Ettrich for the vision and motivation. Thanks to the rest of the team at Trolltech for writing good docs, answering questions on the mailing lists, and being so “open” with the open-source community.

Thanks to the editorial and production staff at Prentice Hall for their meticulous reading of our book and for helping us to find the many errors that were distributed throughout the text.

Finally, thanks to Suffolk University, a source of great support throughout this project. In particular, thanks to Andrew Teixeira for his tireless help in maintaining the servers that we used heavily for the past two years and for his invaluable technical advice. Thanks also to the students who took CMPSC 331/608 using the evolving preliminary versions of this book since fall 2003 and who provided us with a stream of valuable feedback.