Benjamin LaGrone - HTML5 and CSS3 Responsive Web Design Cookbook

Benjamin LaGrone is a web developer who lives and works in Texas. He got his start in programming at the age of 6 when he took his first computer class at The Houston Museum of Natural Science. His first program was choose your own adventure book, written in BASIC; he has fond memories of the days when software needed you to write line numbers.

Fast forward to about thirty years later; after deciding that computers are here to stay, Ben has made a career combining some of his favorite thingsart and coding; creating art from code. One of his favorite projects was using the GMaps API to map pathologies to chromosomes for cancer research.

Fascinated with mobile devices for a long time, Ben thinks that the Responsive Web is one of the most exciting, yet long time coming, new aspects of web development. He now works in a SAAS development shop and is the mobile and Responsive Web evangelist for the team.

When hes not working on some Internet project, Ben spends his time building robots, tinkering with machines, drinking coffee, surfing, and teaching Kuk Sool martial arts.

This book could not have been written without the patience and support of my loving wife, Hannah, and my two beautiful daughters, Daphne and Darby. Thank you.

Dale Cruse is the author of HTML5 Multimedia Development and has worked as a technical editor on several other HTML5 books. He started his career in 1995 as a U.S. Army photojournalist. Since going purely digital on CBSNews.com, hes created web and mobile experiences for some of the most well-known clients in the world, including 20th Century Fox, Bloomingdales, and MINI Cooper. Currently, he juggles between being a senior frontend developer at Allen & Gerritsen and a New York Yankees fan in South Boston. An in-demand speaker, you cant get him to shut up on Twitter at @dalecruse.

Ed Henderson was born and raised in Scotland, and is an experienced human being, with a love for designing, building, and making and breaking things online.

Not afraid to get his hands dirty and his feet wet, he is open to new technologies as long as they are useful and/or fun.

Ed has a real degree in Computer Science, has run his own business, worked freelance, been employed, and been a consultant. He is now employed as Senior Software Engineer for POPSUGAR in San Francisco, California, USA.

He has vast experience in all aspects of the industry, from web pages and apps to social media. Ed has also reviewed and written a number of books.

Ed thrives on coming up with fresh ideas. Making a difference and turning one of those ideas into useful, working things is what floats Eds boat.

Away from the crazy world of the Web, Ed has run the Edinburgh Marathon and abseiled down a lighthouse, raising thousands of pounds for charity. He captained his local Scottish rugby team for three seasons, winning the championship as top scorer and reaching the final of a national competition.

You may not know that Ed is the Dad from Jack Draws Anything (http://jackdrawsanything.com/) and the winner of the prestigious .net magazine Social Campaign of the Year (2011) award.

Ed lives in Corte Madera, California, USA (just 15 minutes from San Francisco) with the rest of Team Hendo: his amazing wife Rose and sidekicks Jack, Toby, and Noah.

Ed likes cake, bacon, cider, and talking about himself in the third person.

Rokesh Jankie graduated with a Masters degree in Computer Science from Leiden University, the Netherlands, in 1998. His field of specialization was Algorithms and NP-complete problems. Scheduling problems can be NP-complete, and thats the area he focused on. After that, he started working for the University of Leiden. He then went on to work with ORTEC consultants, Ponte Vecchio, and later, with Qualogy. At Qualogy, he used his experience thus far to set up a product. Qualogy works in the fields of Oracle and Java technologies. With the current set of technologies, interesting products can be delivered; that is QAFE (see www.qafe.com for more info).

The company that he works for now is specialized in Oracle and Java technologies. As head of the product development department and CTO of QAFE Inc., his focus is on the future of web application development. At the company, modern technologies (such as HTML5, Google APIs, AngularJS, NodeJS, and Java) are used, and close contact is kept with some excellent people at Google to make things work.

He has also reviewed the books HTML5 Canvas Cookbook by Packt Publishing and Dart in Action by Manning Publications Co .

Im very honored and grateful that I was contacted to review this book. Savio Jose gave me the opportunity to review the book. It always feels good to be part of the next big thing on the Web (HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) in this way and for this particular topic. The future of web applications looks very promising.