About the Author

FRANK W. ZAMMETTI is a five-time Oscar nominee, a two-time daytime Emmy winner, and a Grammy finalist three years running. He was also one of the top 36 in last years' American Idol competition, hikes in the Andes with Sir Richard Branson twice a year, and is scheduled to fly aboard the next space shuttle flight this summer.

Okay, it's possible that not all of that is true.

Frank, however, is in fact an author of a number of web development books with just a <sarcasm>slight</sarcasm> slant toward Ajax development. He is a lead developer/architect/whatever-his-title-says-this-week for one of the largest financial institutions in the United States, leading development of next-generation web applications.

Frank also contributes to a number of open source projects, leads a couple of them, and has even founded a few. His inane ramblings can be found in the archives of many projects' mailing lists!

Frank has done a few public-speaking engagements over the past two or three years and is most likely the reason scientists are currently developing time travel so that a sort of seven-second delay can be applied to live speakers, as is frequently done with "live" television programs to avoid FCC fines.

Frank has achieved a number of things of note in his life, but without question his crowning achievement has been getting his band Cydonia into the top 250 in the video game Rock Band. This even beats the time he spent in an actual rock band!

Frank lives in Pennsylvania with his longtime wife Traci and is a proud parent (on most days anyway) of his two children, Andrew and Ashley. Oh yes, and lest his family have further reason to yell at him, there's also the pets: Belle (dog), and Pandora the guinea pig (R.I.P. Flower, Pandora's long-time cage mate who passed away shortly before this book was completed...how's that for ending on a downer?!?).