Influential People

The following is a list of people from whom I have learned (indirectly) so much.

• Addy Osmani – Author and Chrome Developer Relations team at Google
• Dr. Axel Rauschmayer – Author of 2ality.com
• Brendan Eich – Inventor of the JavaScript programming language
• Chris Coyier – Designer at CodePen and the creator and maintainer of CSS-Tricks
• Dave Shea – Creator of CSS Zen Garden
• Douglas Crockford – JavaScript evangelist
  • Creator of JSON and developer of JSLint & JSMin
• Eric Elliott – Author of:
  • Programming JavaScript Applications
  • The Two Pillars of JavaScript (pt 1 & pt 2)
• Eric Meyer – W3C’s CSS Test Suite
• Ethan Marcotte – Web designer & developer.
  • Authored the book defining “Responsive Web Design“
• Jeremy Keith – Co-founder of Clearleft
• John Resig – Creator of the jQuery framework
• Lea Verou – Life at the bleeding edge (of web standards)
• Martin Fowler – Self professed “… author, speaker, and loud-mouth on the design of enterprise software.”
• Nicholas Zakas – Front-end engineer, book author, and speaker
• Nicole Sullivan (aka Stubbornella) – Commentator on Object Oriented CSS
• Paul Irish – An expert in web technologies
• Ryan Dahl – Original developer of Node.js
• Scott Jehl – Web designer & developer with Filament Group
• Stuart Nicholls – Author of CSSPlay and the CSSMenus showcase
• Todd Motto – JavaScript and HTML5 software engineer