Matt Snider is a software engineer and JavaScript enthusiast. He has built various web applications from the ground up, since 2003, but has maintained a passion for the UI. He quickly discovered YUI because of its early adoption, great documentation, and strong open-source community. Matt currently maintains a blog dedicated to web application development, leads the UI team at http://www.mint.com, and authored the YUI 2.x Storage Component. In the near future, he plans to port the Storage component to YUI 3. Examples of his work can be found on his personal website http://www.mattsnider.com.