ABOUT THE AUTHOR

NICHOLAS C. ZAKAS has been working with the web for over a decade. During that time, he has worked both on corporate intranet applications used by some of the largest companies in the world and on large-scale consumer websites such as My Yahoo! and the Yahoo! homepage. As a presentation architect at Yahoo!, Nicholas guided front-end development and standards for some of the most-visited websites in the world. Nicholas is an established speaker and regularly gives talks at companies, conferences, and meetups regarding front-end best practices and new technology. He has authored several books, including Professional Ajax and High Performance JavaScript, and writes regularly on his blog at http://www.nczonline.net/. Nicholas’s Twitter handle is @slicknet.