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Dori Smith is coauthor (with Tom Negrino) of JavaScript & Ajax for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 7th Edition, Mac OS X Unwired, and Dreamweaver CS3: Visual QuickStart Guide; author of Java 2 for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide; and a contributor to numerous online and print computer industry magazines. She created the Ajax Essential Training and JavaScript Essential Training video courses for Lynda.com and occasionally does tech editing. She's a frequent speaker at industry conferences, belongs to the Steering Committee for the Web Standards Project, and serves as Publisher and ListMom for the Wise-Women's Web organization. She's also the main contributor to the long-running Backup Brain weblog.