Cracking Windows Phone and BlackBerry Native Development: Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Without the Kludge
Copyright 2011 by Matthew Baxter-Reynolds
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Contents at a Glance
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About the Author
Matthew Baxter-Reynolds is an independent software development consultant, trainer, and author based in the UK, specializing in mobile technology solutions. He can be contacted via Linked In at www.linkedin.com/in/mbrit
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About the Technical Reviewer
In 2004, Matthew Fitchett, with experience in VB.Net, joined a small e-commerce team to trial C# within a (then) small DVD- and CDfocused e-commerce company.
Play.com went on to become one of Europe's largest e-commerce companies, with Matthew playing a major role as one of a handful of senior software developers. After six and a half enjoyable years, Matthew decided to move on to specialize in mobile technology, which he sees as a significant growth area for software developers and enterprises.
Working alongside Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, Matthew produced prototypes on a variety of technology platforms (Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 7, to name three) for a leading company in the mobile survey software market.
Matthew and his beautiful wife, Sarah, have two young boys, Isaac and Harry, and live in the beautiful town of Bury St. Edmunds. He enjoys films, games, music, and eating good food while drinking good beer, and he regularly practices Muay Thai.
His blog at www.mattfitchett.com
covers all of the above, along with more mobile technology discussion.
Acknowledgments
With much thanks and appreciation to my wife, Andy, for the patience and support she has shown during writing and development of this book, Matt Fitchett for his excellent suggestions and review work, and Jonathan Hassell, Anita Castro, and the others at the Apress team for their sterling work in turning this book into reality.
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