Acknowledgments

I’ll begin by thanking John Resig and the jQuery team for providing such a useful tool for web developers throughout the world.

Thanks also to Marc Grabanski for allowing me to contribute to the Calendar/ Datepicker plugin and for launching me into plugin development.

Writing a book is always a group effort, and I would like to acknowledge the editorial team at Manning: Bert Bates, Frank Pohlmann, and Cynthia Kane; the technical proofreaders Renso Hollhumer and Michiel Trimpe; and the entire production team for their support and guidance. Special thanks to Christina Rudloff for the initial approach from Manning regarding a jQuery UI book.

My thanks to all the developers who have contacted me over the years with comments, suggestions, bugs, and localizations for my plugins, with special thanks to those who have contributed something to my efforts—I’m enjoying the music and dancing!

I am grateful to the reviewers of the early versions of the manuscript, for providing insights that improved the final product: Amandeep Jaswal, Anne Epstein, Brady Kelly, Bruno Figueiredo, Daniele Midi, David Walker, Ecil Teodoro, Geraint Williams, Giuseppe De Marco, PhD, Jorge Ezequiel Bo, Lisa Z. Morgan, Mike Ma, Pim Van Heuven, and Stephen Rice.

Special thanks to Dave Methvin, president of the jQuery Foundation, for contributing the foreword and for endorsing my book.