About the Author
Thomas A. Powell (tpowell@pint.com) is a long-time
industry veteran. After an early stint at CERFnet in the
early ‘90s, he founded Powell Internet Consulting (later
renamed PINT) in 1994, a Web design and consulting services
firm. Today, PINT (pint.com) provides Web development,
design, and consulting services to large and small corporations
all over the United States in a variety of industries.
Beyond his involvement at PINT, Thomas is heavily
involved in the academic community. He developed the
University of California, San Diego Extension Web Publishing
program in the late 1990s and continues to teach classes there
in Web development and design. He is also an instructor for
the UCSD Computer Science Department, where he teaches
classes in Web development and the theory of programming
languages.
Mr. Powell is well published, and his work has appeared
in numerous trade publications. He continues to publish
regularly in Network World. He also has published numerous
books on Web technology and design, including Ajax: The
Complete Reference, JavaScript: The Complete Reference, and
many others. His books have been translated into over
12 languages and are used around the world both in industry
and college settings.
About the Technical Editor
James H. (Jim) Pence is a full-time writer, editor, speaker,
singer, and performance chalk artist. Jim broke into book
publishing in 2001 with How to Do Everything with HTML,
a how-to book on Web authoring, written “by a nontechie for
nontechies,” and published by McGraw-Hill Professional. He
followed this book the same year with another book for
McGraw-Hill: Cascading Style Sheets: A Beginner’s Guide.
McGraw-Hill published a second edition of Jim’s HTML
book, re-titled How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML,
in 2003.
Jim is also a published novelist. He is the author of Blind
Sight (Tyndale, 2003), a suspense/thriller novel set in the
mind-control cults, and The Angel (Kregel, 2006), set against
the backdrop of the euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
movements. Jim moved into “true crime” writing with his
latest book, Terror by Night (Tyndale, 2009). Terror by Night is
the true story of the brutal 2008 murders of the Caffey family
in Emory, Texas. You can learn more about Jim’s books and
other creative projects at his Web site: www.jamespence.com.
