Thomas A. Powell (tpowell@pint.com) is the founder and CEO of PINT, Inc., a nationally known Web development and consulting firm. He is also the founder of a number of long-running software firms, including ZingChart (zingchart.com), a JavaScript charting and visualization library vendor; and Port80 Software (port80software.com), a maker of Web server security and performance software. He has written numerous books, including HTML & CSS: The Complete Reference™, Ajax: The Complete Reference™, Web Design: The Complete Reference™, Web Site Engineering, and numerous others. Mr. Powell also teaches Web development classes for the University of California, San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Department, as well as for the Information Technologies program at UCSD Extension. He holds a B.S. from UCLA and an M.S. in Computer Science from UCSD.
Fritz Schneider is a Staff Software Engineer at Google where he leads web serving and UI infrastructure projects. His past work includes a social web startup acquired by Google, contributions to anonymizing web proxies, and a prior stint at Google where he improved browser security by founding the Safe Browsing project. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Columbia and an M.S. in Computer Science from UCSD.
Christie Sorenson is a senior software engineer at ZingChart. She has worked on JavaScript-based systems in analytics, content management, and business applications since 1997 and has been fascinated with the evolution of the language and its users. She has collaborated with Thomas on numerous other projects, including Ajax: The Complete Reference ™ and HTML & CSS: The Complete Reference ™. She has a B.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego and now lives in San Francisco with her husband Luke and daughters, Ali and Keira. As a lifelong fan of the San Francisco Giants, any references in this book to the team are solely due to her influence.