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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
RICHARD YORK has written four previous Wrox books, including Beginning JavaScript and CSS
Development with jQuery (2009).ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR AND
TECHNICAL EDITOR
PETER HENDRICKSON has been developing software as a hobby since 1989 and professionally since
- He is currently a Manager of Software Engineering at salesforce.com, where he has developed
both user interface and middle-tier components for the Salesforce Marketing Cloud. In addition to
his work technical editing many chapters of the book, Peter contributed by writing several chapters.
ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR
NIK DEVEREAUX joined ViaSat in 2003 and is currently a program director for ViaSat’s Central
Engineering department. He manages the Software Engineering Offi ce and University Partnerships &
Recruiting programs. In this role, Nik’s primary goal is to grow the size, skill set, and strategic alignment
of the entire software engineering community across all business areas and offi ce locations. He received
his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UC San Diego.