jQuery UI: Rich Interactivity, Simplified

Mike Hostetler is an inventor, entrepreneur, programmer and proud father. Having worked with web technologies since the mid 1990’s, Mike has had extensive experience developing web applications with PHP and JavaScript. Currently, Mike works as the CEO of appendTo, LLC, the jQuery Company, based in Denver, Colorado. Heavily involved in Open Source, Mike is a member of the jQuery Core team, leads the QCubed PHP5 Framework project, and participates in the Drupal project. When not in front of a computer, Mike enjoys hiking, fly-fishing, snowboarding and spending time with his family.

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Jonathan Sharp has been passionate about the internet and web development since 1996. In the years that followed, Jonathan has worked in a variety of settings from the small startup (yes it was in a garage) to large enterprise organizations such as Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha, Nebraska. Jonathan’s technical background crosses all stacks of architecture from hardware and networking (a former CCNA) up through front-end development and user experience. Jonathan’s background additionally includes a variety of technologies from open source LAMP stacks to J2EE to ASP.NET MVC. The diversity of this experience is focused on front-end architecture and the integration between various layers of an application in an enterprise setting. In addition to this Jonathan is also speaker, trainer, author, jQuery Team Member and has an unhealthy obsession about APIs. Jonathan is currently the President of appendTo which provides enterprise jQuery services.

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