Bear Bibeault
has been working in the area of web applications since the midnineties,
getting started with beta versions of JSP and Servlets. He is a senior moderator
at the popular JavaRanch site, and has contributed articles to that site's
JavaRanch Journal. He is a co-author of the Manning books Ajax in Practice and
Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action. He works and resides in Austin, TX.
Yehuda Katz is a developer with Engine Yard. He contributes actively to jQuery,
heading up the plug-in development team. He also runs Visual jQuery, a dynamic,
browsable version of the jQuery API, used heavily by new users of the library
and core developers alike.