September 2014
Beginner
686 pages
20h 43m
English
Content preview from JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition
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The Missing Credits
About the Author
David Sawyer McFarland is president of Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc., a web development and training company in Portland, Oregon. He’s been building websites since 1995, when he designed his first site—an online magazine for communication professionals. He’s served as webmaster at the University of California at Berkeley and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center, and oversaw a complete CSS-driven redesign of Macworld.com.
In addition to building websites, David is also a writer, trainer, and instructor. He’s taught web design at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, the Center for Electronic Art, the Academy of Art College, Ex‘Pressions Center for New Media, and Portland State University. He’s written articles about the web for Practical Web Design, MX Developer’s Journal, Macworld magazine, and CreativePro.com.
He welcomes feedback about this book by email: missing@sawmac.com. (If you’re seeking technical help, however, please refer to the sources listed in Appendix A.)
About the Creative Team
Nan Barber (editor) is associate editor for the Missing Manual series. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and various electronic devices. Email: nanbarber@gmail.com.
Melanie Yarbrough (production editor) works and plays in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she bakes up whatever she can imagine and bikes around the city. Email: myarbrough@oreilly.com ...
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