About the Author
Eli Geske is an entrepreneurial graphics designer turned programmer. He has been involved in web applications from creating and enhancing online gaming communities, to building applications that improve company's efficiency. He has also invented products, put in for patents, and pushed them to market. His programming skills range from JavaScript, PHP, and C# which he uses in the medical industry, payment processing industry, and on custom order management sites. He also has a degree in computer science, focusing on networking and web server administration.
His knowledge of DHTMLX springs from his daily engagements in a current large scale medical application.
Some other of Eli's writings and public offerings can be viewed on his blog www.eligeske.com or on eligeske.github.com.
Throughout the past couple of years, my daily involvement with the DHTMLX components Suite has included working with a wonderful development team locally and abroad. These people have given me the ability to expand my knowledge and learn new things. I'd like to send out thanks to Igor Lopez, Bruno Spinelli, Tengiz Tutisani, Jaya Uradhanda, Sergey Bilida, Dmitry Shumarov, and Sergio Reyes who are a part of that great team! I would also like to thank, Roberto and Victor Beraja, whose visions have stretched the DHTMLX library to its limits on more than one occasion. Cheers!
About the Reviewers
Asen Bozhilov is web developer with years of experience in web technologies. Currently, he is working on XULRunner applications using JavaScript and XUL. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science. In his spare time, he likes to experiment with new technologies and programming languages. His interests are mostly in the computer sciences, but he also enjoys sport activities.
He has reviewed other JavaScript books, such as Maintainable JavaScript , JavaScript Patterns , and JavaScript for PHP developers .
Ali Farhadi is a senior web developer and system administrator living in Mashhad, Iran. He is passionate about working on open source technology and has contributed to the major php frameworks, CakePHP, and Lithium.
He is also one of the pioneers in the Persian node.js community and has contributed to the core project since 2009. He has also authored a few open source projects notably the HTML5Sortable jQuery plugin and SMPP module for node.js.
You can read more about him and his works at his website http://farhadi.ir.
Ed Wildgoose grew up in the time when a ZX81 was cutting edge and spent his formative years slaving away in the finance world, before deciding that the way ahead was to start slaving away for even longer hours and less money as his own boss. He enjoys learning about the art of IT for its own sake and has played with most common (and uncommon) programming languages and tools over the years (Did anyone else enjoy using Haskell in the early 90s?). He has developed projects on Mac, Windows, and Linux over past years, but most currently favors Linux for backend servers and Mac on the desktop.
He currently owns MailASail (http://mailasail.com), a boutique, which supplies services for users with satellite phones and roaming cellular devices. MailASail is a leading supplier of satellite hardware and airtime, but specialize in offering in-house solutions, which optimize TCP data over the expensive satellite links, that is, you can grab your iPhone and read your email from the middle of an ocean, desert, or glacier, for a very affordable cost! Their customers range from BBC nature documentary creators through to ocean rowers.
I would like to thank my wife Sue, and, my children, Katie and Luke, for putting up without their father while he spent far too long working.
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Preface
The DHTMLX components library is fast, fun, and exciting! If you are looking to build a user friendly, highly interactive web application, then DHTMLX is one of the best choices in the market today.
DHTMLX provides great individual components from grids, charts, forms, layouts, toolbars, and more that can all be used together or individually. Each of the components has great online documentation with many samples.