Gracious thanks first and foremost to John Resig and the rest of the jQuery team for creating and sharing such a useful and elegant library with the rest of us.

A big thank you to Marlene Angel, Ninno DePatrick, Ed Doolittle, Crystal Ehrlich, Suzette Franck, Teresina Goheen, LeHang Huynh, Michelle Kempner, Mark Tapio Kines, Chloë Nguyễn, Mario Noble, Joss Rogers, Noel Saw, Kimberly Wilkinson, and Tammy Wilson for their support, advice, and cheerleading—I couldn't ask for better friends.

Thank you to Beebe Lee and Brittany Brooks, my Purple Pen support team.

Thank you to my sisters, Stefanie Elder and Bethany MacLees, for being properly impressed that somebody wanted me to write a book. Thank you to my mom, Patricia Demby, and stepfather, John Demby, for being proud of me no matter what.

Thank you to all members of our local WordPress and jQuery communities including Dre Armeda, Lucy Beer, Andrew Behla, Glenn Bennett, Stephen Carnam, Jason Cosper, Ryan Cowles, Joe Chellman, Gregory Dahl, Greg Douglas, Brandon Dove, Chris Ford, Gregg Franklin, Megan Gray, Lane Halley, John Hawkins, Susie Karasic, Chris Lema, Paul Lumsdaine, Kari Leigh Marucchi, Karim Marucchi, Karen McCamy, Andrei Mignea, Troy Miles, Konstantin Obenland, Joseph Karr O'Connor, David Oshima, Sé Reed, Andy Roberts, Mike Schroder, Adam Silver, Verious Smith, Jason Tucker, Nathan Tyler, Alex Vasquez, Sarah Wefald, Steve Zehngut, Jeffery Zinn, and too many others to count or mention.

And finally, thank you to Diane Colella Jones for believing in me, even before I did.