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Many people helped make this book a reality in one form or another, and some of them may not even realize it! I’ll try to remember them all here, but chances are I haven’t, and I apologize in advance.

First and foremost, I would like to thank everyone at Apress who made this book a reality. This is my second go-round with you folks, and it was just as pleasurable an experience this time as the first. Chris, Matt, Tracy, Marilyn, Laura, Tina, and all the rest, thank you! A great deal of thanks goes to Herman van Rosmalen, one of my partners in crime on the Java Web Parts project (http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net) project, and technical reviewer for this book. I know you put in a lot of time and effort in keeping me honest, and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it! Now, let’s get back to work on JWP!
A big thanks must also go to Anthony Volpe, the fine artist who did the illustrations for this book. He and I have been friends for about ten years now, and we have collaborated on a number of projects, including three PocketPC games (check ’em out: http://www.omnytex.com), as well as a couple of Flash games (http://www.planetvolpe.com/crackhead) and some web cartoons (http://www.planetvolpe.com/du). He is a fantastic artist, as I’m sure you can see for yourself, an incredibly creative person, and a good friend to boot.
I would also like to thank those that built some of the libraries used in this book, including all the folks working on Dojo, Sam Stephenson (Prototype), Aaron Newton, Christophe Beyls, and Valerio Proietti of the Mootools team; Bob Ippolito of MochiKit fame; all the YUI developers; and everyone working on script.aculo.us and Rico.
Last but most definitely not least, I would like to thank everyone who bought this book! I sincerely hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it, and I hope that you find it to be worth your hard-earned dollars and that it proves to be an educational and eye-opening experience.

As I said, I know I am almost certainly forgetting a boatload of people, so how about I just thank the entire world and be done with it?!? In fact, if I had the technology, I’d be like Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, only with “Thanks!?instead of insults.
And on that note, let’s get to some code!