For general comments and bug reports, please contact ulsah@book.admin.com. We regret that we are unable to answer technical questions. Evi Nemeth retired from the Computer Science faculty at the University of Colorado in 2001. She explored the Pacific on her 40-foot sailboat named Wonderland for many years before becoming lost at sea in 2013 (see page xl). The fourth edition of this book was her last as an active participant, but we're proud to say that we've retained her writing where possible.
Garth Snyder (@GarthSnyder) has worked at NeXT and Sun and holds a BS in Engineering from Swarthmore College and an MD and an MBA from the University of Rochester. Trent R. Hein (@trenthein) is a serial entrepreneur who is passionate about practical cybersecurity and automation. Outside of technology, he loves hiking, skiing, fly fishing, camping, bluegrass, dogs, and the Oxford comma. Trent holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Colorado.
Ben Whaley is the founder of WhaleTech, an independent consultancy. He was honored by Amazon as one of the first AWS Community Heroes. He obtained a BS in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dan Maddn (@dan_mackin) has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Coloradci at Boulder. He applies Linux and other open source technologies not only to his work, but also to automation, monitoring, and weather metrics collection projects at home.
Dan loves skiing, sailing, backcountry touring, and spending time with his wife and dog.