JavaScript Application Cookbook

Acknowledgments

My name is on the cover, but it gives me great pride to credit others in the creation of this book. I’d like to extend heartfelt gratitude to these folks for making this possible.

On the technical side, I’d like to thank Steve Quint and James Chan, Jim Esten, Bill Anderson, Roland Chow, Rodney Myers, Matthew Mastracci, Giorgio Braga, Brock Beauchamp and the others who have let me tap into their massive wealth of JavaScript and other programming experience whenever I got into a bind. And I must pay homage to Patrick Clark, whose code was the inspiration for the online help application. Thanks to Richard Koman, my editor, for keeping an open ear to my ideas and enabling me to put them on paper, and to Tara McGoldrick and Rob Romano for all their behind-the-scenes labors.

On the emotional side, I’d like to sincerely thank my wife, Róndine Bradenbaugh, for putting up with me staring at a PC monitor and typing feverishly, night after night, for months. I’d like to thank my parents for their support and for encouraging me to develop my writing skills.

I’d also like to thank someone else who often gets overlooked—you, the reader. It’s you who leave your hard-earned cash at the bookstore that makes all of this possible. There are plenty of JavaScript books available. You chose mine. Thanks, big time, for giving me the opportunity to give you your money’s worth.