About the Author

Chris Mears lives in San Francisco and is the lead web developer at Canned Banners, a startup he co-founded. Though he considers himself a generalist when it comes to technology, he finds true passion developing for the Web. When he's not thinking and dreaming code, he enjoys going to concerts, practicing his guitar, homebrewing beer, and tea snobbery. This is his first book.

I'd like to thank Anna for her support and proofreading throughout the writing of this book. I'd like to thank my friends and family (and family of friends), who have given me words of encouragement. Last, but certainly not least, I'd like to thank my friend and past colleague, Shifra, for being a great technical editor andfixing all of my grammatical mistakes.