About the author

David Herron is a software engineer in Silicon Valley, working on projects from an X.400 e-mail server to assist launching the OpenJDK project, to Yahoo's Node.js application-hosting platform, and a solar array performance monitoring service. David writes about electric vehicles, green technology on The Long Tail Pipe website, and about other topics, including Node.js, on TechSparx website. Using Node.js, he developed the AkashaCMS static website generator.

I wish to thank my mother, Evelyn, for everything; my father, Jim; my sister, Patti; my brother, Ken; my partner Maggie for being there and encouraging me, and the many years we expect to have with each other. I wish to thank Dr. Kubota of the University of Kentucky for believing in me, giving me my first computing job, and overseeing 6 years of learning the art of computer system maintenance. I am grateful to Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, and the current Node.js core team members. Some platforms are just plain hard to work with, but not Node.js.