About the Authors

Jeremy McPeak is a self-taught programmer who began his career by tinkering with websites in 1998. He is the author of JavaScript 24-Hour Trainer (Wiley 2010) and co-author of Professional Ajax, 2nd Edition (Wiley 2007). He also contributes to Tuts+ Code (http://code.tutsplus.com), providing articles, video tutorials, and courses for JavaScript, C#, and ASP.NET. He is currently employed by an oil and gas company building in-house conventional and web applications. Jeremy can be contacted via the p2p forums, his website (http://www.wdonline.com), and Twitter (@jwmcpeak).

Paul Wilton started as a Visual Basic applications programmer at the Ministry of Defense in the UK and then found himself pulled into the Net. Having joined an Internet development company, he spent three years helping create Internet solutions. He's now running his own successful and rapidly growing company developing online holiday property reservation systems.

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