Wellman Dan - JQuery 2.0 Animation techniques beginner’s guide

Adam Culpepper is a frontend web developer who works for Envoc, a software development firm, located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is very active in his community; organizing, founding, and sitting on the board of many industry-related groups and organizations in his area. When he's not reading, writing, working, organizing, or attending a community event, he's spending time with his great friends and family or his girlfriend Amber, his son Aiden and his cat Emma. Adam can be reached at his website (www.adamculpepper.net) or through Twitter (@adamculpepper).

I dedicate this book to my girlfriend, Amber, who tolerates my time spent reading, writing, and learning.

To my son Aiden and my cat Emma, who both frequently break my concentration while writing.

To my mom, who has always encouraged me to reach for my dreams (except for my childhood dream of growing up to be a puppy).

To the best damn boss in the world, Calvin Fabre.

Also, I'd like to give special thanks to the period, comma, and the semicolon. Without you guys, I would have gotten a lot more restful nights.

Dan Wellman is an author and web developer based on the South coast of the UK. By day he works alongside some of the most talented people he has had the pleasure of calling colleagues, for a small, yet accomplished digital agency called Design Haus. By night he writes books and tutorials on a range of frontend topics. He is hopelessly addicted to jQuery. His life is enriched by four wonderful children, a beautiful wife, and a close circle of family and friends. This is his fifth book.

I would like to thank the hugely supportive and patient editorial team at Packt, without whom this book would not exist. I would also like to thank the reviewers, especially Ben Nadel and Cyril Pierron, who put aside their own personal projects and dedicated countless hours to ensuring the book's technical accuracy. I'd also like to say a big Hey! to some of my closest friends, in no particular order; Andrew Herman, Steev Bishop, Aaron Matheson, Eamon O'Donoghue, James Zabiela, Mike Woodford, and John Adams.

Jeff Byrnes is a software engineer with over 8 years of experience working in web development and operations. Educated as a musician at Berklee College of Music, self-taught as an engineer, he has experience ranges from frontend to backend and systems. HTML5, CSS3, JS, PHP, Git and version control, Puppet, Chef, Vagrant, Bash, Linux, deployment, automation, and analytics; these are all the technologies and skills with which he is experienced and proficient.

Currently, part of the Operations team at EverTrue, Jeff spends his days supporting the engineering team, providing automation, server monitoring and maintenance, workflow improvements, and deployment solutions, as well as providing help desk support to the company at large.

I'd like to thank Dale Cruse for connecting me with the opportunity to assist with this book's publication, and my better half Leah for supporting me as I worked on it.

Emil Lerch is a technical architect, leading teams to build web-based systems for enterprises since 1995. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Kelly and children Kathryn and Jack. His blog is http://emilsblog.lerch.org and he can be reached on twitter @elerch.

My lovely wife and children for giving me the time to help review the book.

Doug Sparling works as a web and mobile software developer for Andrews McMeel Universal, a publishing and syndication company in Kansas City, MO. As long-time employee of the company, he has built everything from the GoComics Android app to registration, ecommerce systems, web services, and various web sites using Ruby on Rails. He's now busy building another site in Rails and porting a Perl-based e-mail system to Go. Some of the AMU properties include GoComics.com, PuzzleSociety.com, Doonesbury.com, and Dilbert.com.

He is also the directory of technology for the small web development firm called New Age Graphics (newage-graphics.com). After creating a custom CMS using C# and ASP.NET, all work has moved to WordPress since WordPress 3.0 was released, eliminating the need to ever run Windows again.

Doug is the author of a popular jQuery plugin, jClock .

Doug is a passionate advocate for WordPress and has written several WordPress plugins, can be found on the WordPress.org forums answering questions (and writing sample code) under the username "scriptrunner", and occasionally plays grammar nerd as a volunteer on the WordPress Codex Documentation team.

Other experience includes PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, Erlang, Python, Magento, and Perl. Doug was also the co-author for a Perl book (Instant Perl modules) and is a reviewer for other Packt books, including Mastering Android 3D Game Development and WordPress Web Application Development, as well as The Well Ground Rubyist, 2nd Edition and Learn Android in a Month of Lunches for Manning Publications.

In his less than ample spare time, Doug enjoys spending time with his family. Other passions include photography, writing music, hitting drums and cymbals with sticks, playing briscola, meditation, and watching countless reruns of Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Doctor Who.

Many thanks to Packt for giving me the opportunity to review a book on jQuery.