Dan Wellman - jQuery Hotshot

Dan Wellman is an author and front-end engineer who lives on the South Coast of the UK and works in London. By day he works for Skype, writing application-grade JavaScript, and by night he writes books and tutorials focused mainly on front-end development. He is also a staff writer for the Tuts+ arm of the Envato network, and occasionally writes for .Net magazine. He's a proud father of four amazing children, and the grateful husband of a wonderful wife. This will be his seventh book.

I'd like to thank my family and friends for their continued support, you guys rock. I'd also like to thank my tireless PA, Derek Spacagna, for his persistent encouragement, and my friend Michael Chart, without whose mathematical genius some of the examples would not have been possible.

Kaiser Ahmed is a professional web developer. He has gained his B.Sc. from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) and M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from United International University, Dhaka. He is also a co-founder of CyberXpress.Net Inc (www.cyberxpress.net), based in Bangladesh.

He has been working as Sr. Software Developer at Krembo Interactive and D1SH.COM CORP., Canada, for 2 years.

He has a wide range of technical skills, Internet knowledge, and experience across a spectrum of online development in the service of building and improving online properties for multiple clients. He enjoys creating site architecture and infrastructure, backend development using open source toolset (PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux and others, that is LAMP), and frontend development with CSS and HTML/XHTML.

I want to thank my loving wife, Maria Akther, for her great support.

Carlos Estebes is the founder of Ehxioz (http://ehxioz.com/), a Los Angeles-based software development startup that specializes in developing modern web applications and utilizing the latest web development technologies and methodologies. He has over 10 years of web development experience and holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from California State University, Los Angeles.

He previously collaborated with Packt Publishing as a technical reviewer in the third edition of Learning jQuery .

Olivier Pons is a developer who's been building websites since 1997. He's a teacher at the University of Sciences (IUT) of Aix-en-Provence, France and Ecole d'Ingnieurs des Mines de Gardanne, where he teaches PHP, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, C++, Java fundamentals, advanced VIM techniques, and Eclipse environment. He has already done some technical reviews, including one for Ext JS 4 First Look , Packt Publishing . In 2011, he left a full time job as a Delphi and PHP developer to concentrate on his own company, HQF Development (http://hqf.fr). He currently runs a number of websites, including http://www.livrepizzas.fr, http://www.papdevis.fr, and http://olivierpons.fr, his own web development blog. He works as a consultant, project manager, and sometimes as a developer.

Hajan Selmani is a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET/IIS, a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), and a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) with deep knowledge and experience in web development technologies. He works as a coordinator of CodeCademy at Seavus Education and Development Center, software development consultant, technology advisor in a few startups, and also focuses on research and innovation using cutting-edge tools and technologies. He is a regular speaker at code camps, Microsoft conferences, and local user group meetings and events where he actively promotes the latest modern web standards and development practices. He is a board member of MKDOT.NET and leader of MK Web User Group. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science, Intelligent Systems.

He has also reviewed the books ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook , Packt Publishing and Entity Framework 4.1: Expert's Cookbook , Packt Publishing .

Christopher Stephen Sidell is a college student attending UMBC. He has been doing freelance web development work for people for the past few years, starting with HTML and CSS in 2005, JavaScript in 2007, and later adding PHP into the mix in 2008. Since then he has been working with others to create portfolio sites and self-made projects. He is self-employed and a full-time student at UMBC.