Bill Sempf - Windows 8 Application Development with HTML5 For Dummies

Windows 8 Application Development with HTML5 For Dummies

by Bill Sempf

Windows 8 Application Development with HTML5 For Dummies

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About the Author

Husband. Father. Author. Software composer. Brewer. Lockpicker. Ninja. Insurrectionist. Honorary blue teamer. Lumberjack. All words that have been used to describe Bill Sempf recently. I write some software, and this isnt my first book. Pleased to meet you.

Dedication

Thank you to my ever-patient family: my beautiful, brilliant wife, Gabrielle, amazing son, Adam, and incredible daughter, Kaelan. You are the reason I do stuff like this.

Authors Acknowledgments

This one has more than the usual number of suspects in the acknowledgements department. I have to first thank Katie Feltman, my acquisitions editor at Wiley, for seeing the promise of Windows 8 and agreeing to the book at all. She knows the technical world well, and me better. Thanks for your vision.

Linda Morris, the project editor, put up with innumerable changes in my personal writing style, as always happens during the writing of a book. How she made this collection of articles into a final product, Ill never know. I am just glad there are people like her out there.

My family, of course, had to put up with innumerable evenings and weekends of Daddy has to write again? I appreciate the patience, and am glad to be back watching Disney movies. No, really!

My local Microsoft evangelists have been instrumental in making sure I make a fool of myself as rarely as humanly possible. Jennifer Marsman, Brian Prince, and Jeff Blankenburg all played a tremendously important role in my growth in the Windows 8 arena, and I thank them.

The local Columbus development community never fails to make me think, and brings the reality of day-to-day development to my writing. Thanks to Samidip Basu, Rob Streno, and Leon Gersing especially for focusing my thought around the realities of app development.

Adam Kinney was my partner in arms in the two apps I built while writing this book. His experience at Microsoft notwithstanding, he provided an unusual clarity of thought about pragmatic JavaScript architecture, structuring apps, and focusing on the right features at the right time. Oscar Naim was the project owner of that project and drove us both to consider all angles of the user experience.

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