Nishanth Nair - Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API

I would like to thank my wife Soumia, for all her support and patience while I wrote the book. Thank you for being such a wonderful wife! Many thanks to my parents, Sreedevi and Ramachandran Nair, and to my sister Nishi Nair for their love and encouragement.

Thanks to my friends Santhosh Karuthethil, Krishnanunni Pattiyil, Ashin Das, Aneesh Pulukkul, Sinto Antony, Anish Vasudevan, Mahesh Nair, and Lakshmi Ravi for being great friends forever. Also I would like to thank my ex-colleagues and buddies at Davita VillageHealth, Anita Nair, Alison Massey, Patrick D'Coster, Satheesh Ambat, Srinivasa Rao, Aruna Shanthaveerappa, and Sarika Goel for all their support and encouragement.

Thanks to my buddy and mentor Rajiv Kolagani who is always an inspiration to me.

Thanks to all my NECAB Core friends, Balachandran Warrier, Sudeesh Yezhuvath, Prakash Bare, Sahasranam, Promod PP, Snehaprabha, Rajeev G, Aji John, Jojy Varghese, Manoj KC, Sivaram P, Kiran, Syam Chand, Hitha, Dhanya V, Minu P, Ragesh, and all the others for being best friends forever!

Many thanks to the Packt Publishing team who made this book happen especially Martin Bell, Sweny Sukumaran, Priyanka Goel, Arshad Sopariwala, Shiny Poojary, and Akashdeep Kundu.

I am greatly indebted to the reviewers of this book, Brian Seekford, David McClelland and Morteza Sahragard for the wonderful job they have done.

Ragini Kumbhat Bhandari is working at eMids Technologies Private Limited as a Technical Lead. She holds a Master of Computer Applications degree in Computer Science and she is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist.

During the course of her career she has worked extensively on .NET and mobile technologies. She finds happiness in sharing knowledge and educating the next generation of software professionals. Apart from spending time on the computer, she likes listening to music.

I would like to thank my parents, D.S. Kumbhat and Sheela Kumbhat, for their encouragement, patience, and support. I would like to thank my company eMids for providing a work culture which inspired me to contribute beyond work. Many thanks to the Packt Publishing team and the reviewers of the book.

David J McClelland has been creating cutting-edge software and content that bridges design, development, and information for over 20 years. He is currently a Principal User Interface Engineer, developing software to manage distributed devices via the Cloud.

I would like to thank my family for encouraging many of my technical and artistic interests.

Morteza Sahragard was born in Iran, and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering. He started programming in the middle of 2000 with Pascal and then C++. With the increasing popularity of the .NET platform, he turned to the Microsoft programming framework and since then he has been involved in various kinds of applications, from Windows to Web, Network to Multimedia, Mobile to highly distributed systems, and so on. In the middle of 2006 he created www.30sharp.com, which is nowadays a famous and well-known tutorial website about technical programming and designing stuff (in Persian). At the moment, he is working as a Senior .NET Developer in an international IT company in Armenia. You can also find him at his English blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/morteza.

Brian Seekford is an experienced software engineer and architect, and is the CEO of Seekford Solutions, Inc. He works with client-side, server-side, and mobile technologies with an emphasis on large scale n-tier systems. The primary technologies he utilizes are the .NET platform for the client and server side, and JavaScript/HTML5 for mobile development. He has worked for Walt Disney World, BP, GM, Delta, PwC, and others who utilize a variety of technologies and hardware. He also built and sold ActiveX controls for network communications and web technologies for 11 years.

I would like to thank my wife and children for putting up with me.