Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my wife, Maria, who supported me throughout what must have seemed like endless evenings and weekends spent apart as I wrote this book. Thank you so much for your encouragement and for your love that kept me motivated to see this project through to completion. You are the most beautiful, wonderful, and intelligent person. I love you so very much.

Thank you to the whole team at Apress: to Louise Corrigan for seeing the potential in my idea; to Christine Ricketts, who coordinated and ensured that everything ran to schedule; to Ben and Zach for their invaluable feedback; and to Laura, Anna, and the rest of the team for turning my source material into the quality product you have in front of you.Thanks to the whole team at AKQA—particularly Ben Jones for his leadership, and the web development team for being the smartest group of engineers I have ever come across in my career. You rock!

Finally, I would like to thank you, dear reader, for taking the time to read the words, study the code, and generally engross yourself in this book. I hope that you take something away from its contents that will help you work, with me, to build a better web for the world.