I have to give a big shout out to Russ Miles and Sylvain Hellegouarch. When I asked Russ two years ago what he throught about pitching a book proposal for my open source project, he told me to go for it. I bounced that off of Sylvain, and he gave the same strong encouragement. So I put one together and sent it off to Packt Publishing. After acceptance, Russ and Sylvain eagerly signed on as technical reviewers and I quickly learned that they don't pull any punches. So when Packt approached me to write another book, Russ and Sylvain were the first two people I asked about supporting me in this one as well. When you want to pitch a book proposal, its great to have a couple of solid developer geeks to encourage you and back you up by being ready to give you real, objective feedback. Thanks guys!