Raymond Camden - jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials

Raymond Camden is a Developer Evangelist for Adobe focusing on web standards and mobile development. He is a contributing author to numerous technical books including the best selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit , published by Adobe Press . He has spoken at conferences around the world and maintains many popular ColdFusion community websites. He is the manager of www.RIAForge.org, www.CFLib.org, and writes at his blog www.raymondcamden.com. Raymond is happily married and a proud father to three kids and is somewhat of a Star Wars nut.

I'd like to thank everyone on the jQuery and jQuery Mobile teams for making tools that have changed my life. Without your hard work and dedication, the web would be less awesome. Thank you Andy, for coming on board and helping to make this book better.

Andy Matthews has been working as a web and application developer for 13 years, with an experience in a wide range of industries, and has a skill set which includes graphic design, programming, business strategy and planning, and marketing. Throughout his career he has been privileged to work on projects which interfaced with industry giants such as Craigslist, written code that allowed Enterprise level sales teams to quickly and efficiently build presentations for their clients. He stays up-to-date with current trends in the marketplace by helping previous employers transition to newer, more effective, coding habits and standards. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the country. He has also developed software for the open source community, and he currently works for a social networking startup Goba.mobi in Nashville, TN.

I'd like to thank my wife Jaime, and my children Noelle, Evan, and Mason for their patience and grace in letting me pursue my passion. Most of all, thank you God for giving me the desire to learn, the ability to pick things up quickly, and the perseverance to apply the knowledge I've gained throughout the years.

Md Mahmud Ahsan has been developing and leading some medium to large web applications for the past six years. He has worked with a number of PHP frameworks (Zend, CodeIgniter) and generally likes working with an MVC design pattern. His experience ranges from developing web applications from scratch, as well as modifying and adding functionality to existing custom in-house systems, open source applications, and commercial applications. He graduated in Computer Science and Engineering, and is a PHP5 Zend Certified Engineer. He is also an expert in iPhone applications development and has in depth working knowledge in Objective C, C, C++, Cocos2D, Box2D, and Xcode. Apart from his full time job, he maintains a blog at http://thinkdiff.net. He lives in Bangladesh with his wife Jinat Jahan.

Currently, he is self employed and has been developing iPhone and iPad applications, which he publishes through his own site http://ithinkdiff.net. Besides this, he is a part time freelancer and works on LAMP based web applications development.

He was a technical reviewer for the following books published by Packt Publishing:

I'm very grateful to my father who brought a computer for me in 2001, since then I have loved programming and work in various technologies.

Shameemah Kurzawa started programming when she was at high school. Being motivated to be a System Analyst, she pursued both undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Business Information Systems and Software Engineering respectively.

She has been working as a Web Developer/Analyst for the past six years; she has worked in the past for Australia's renowned broadcasting company SBS and has freelanced for her own company since 2010. Besides work she enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, and cooking. She likes to read and try new web technologies.

She has previously reviewed jQuery UI themes and PHP jQuery Cookbook for Packt Publishing .

I would like to thank my husband and the Packt team for their support and understanding in helping me review this book.

M. Ali Qureshi is based in Lahore, Pakistan. He has developed a comprehensive understanding of web development processes having worked in the capacity of Web Designer, Frontend developer, PHP Developer, Flash ActionScript Developer, Software Engineer, and Project Manager in the last 12 years designing and developing creative, interactive and usable web solutions, that get high rankings in search engines and drive qualified traffic to websites, making them a successful technology investment.

He has done a Masters in Economics and Computer Sciences. Running along Lahore canal early in the morning, watching good movies and listening to music, working out at the gym, reading books, discussing politics, and an occasional stroll in Lawrence Garden, Lahore are a few things that Ali mostly enjoys.

When not working, he spends his time blogging and exploring new technologies. Ali is an avid sports fan and likes watching Cricket, especially Pakistan and Australia which are his favorite teams.

Joe Wu is a Senior PHP Web Developer and has more than four years of commercial experience to date.

Joe is always enthusiastic about exploring new ideas, technologies and opportunities that arise. He has a wide range of skills, specializing primarily in PHP, CodeIgniter PHP Framework, MySQL, JQuery, HTML, and CSS. Joe's skills and experiences further extends out to various other technologies and tools such as Subversion, Microsoft CRM, SOAP, Bash Scripting, and Symfony PHP Framework.