Ivan Turkovic - PhoneGap Essentials

Ivan Turkovic is an experienced developer with over 15 years of programming experience. He developed an interest for software development at an early age of 8, when he started to write Basic code on his first Commodore 64 computer. Seeing the potential of what could be done with it encouraged him to pursue his studies in computer science. He has extensive experience of mobile and web application development and has delivered many enterprise and consumer solutions. His favorite languages are Ruby, Swift, and JavaScript. Ivan has always been interested in emerging technologies. In his spare time, when he is not working on another exciting pet project, he is traveling and learning new "human" languages. He writes his thoughts at http://ivanturkovic.com.

In the past, he has helped found several technology start-ups. As a founder and digital consultant at Blaeg (http://www.blaeg.com), he helps companies, start-ups, and individuals integrate technology into their business and strategies. He also conducts trainings and workshops and writes blogs to share his knowledge with the community.

To my family: thank you for your support and patience with me over the last few months. You won't hear, "I am busy; I have a book to write" from me anytime soon, promise!

This book is my first attempt at becoming a technical book writer. Writing it has been a fun and exciting experience, but it was also quite harsh on some occasions. There were moments between work and personal issues when I thought I couldn't make it, but here we are! What I want to do now is thank all the wonderful people who have accompanied me on this journey.

Johnathan Iannotti is a software engineer and geek on an epic journey of life. His experience spans 15 years of technology solutions for start-ups, financial companies, healthcare, and military industries. He is passionate about web technology and has been creating hybrid apps since their inception. A full-stack developer by trade, he loves UX/UI, frontend development, and mobile.

He works for USAA, creating mobile applications for over 27,000 employees that serve their military membership. He is also a combat veteran, having served almost a decade in the United States Army.

Johnathan spends his time innovating, coding, and making the best of it all. When he's not plugged in, he spends as much time as he can with his beautiful wife and two children, who make it all possible.

You can follow Johnathan on Twitter at @notticode or visit his website, http://www.johnforhire.com/.

Yousuf Qureshi is an early adopter of technology and gadgets and has profound experience in the e-commerce, social media, analytics, and mobile apps sectors. He is a Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (CCDH).

His expertise includes development, technology turnaround, consulting, and architecture. He is also an experienced developer of Android, iOS, Blackberry, ASP.net MVC, Java, MapReduce, Distributed Search and Inverted Index algorithms, Hadoop, Hive, Apache Pig, Media API integration, and multiplatform applications.

Yousuf has also reviewed jQuery Drag and Drop Grids How-To and Monitoring Hadoop for Packt Publishing.

To my (late) grandparents, Abdullah Tanwar and Yasin Khokar.

Anthony Rumsey is a software developer at Adobe with a passion for creating well-designed and engaging user experiences. During his 15-year career, he has focused on the integration of web technologies into Adobe's enterprise software. More recently, his focus has shifted to exploring the capabilities of the mobile web and mobile apps, including contributions to the responsive simulator, touch interface, and PhoneGap integration in Adobe Experience Manager. Anthony happily resides in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife and two children.

Kasper Souren was born in the Netherlands and has been working with Internet technologies across the globe since 1998 for various companies and institutions, including CouchSurfing, Mercedes-Benz, Geekcorps Mali, the Dutch tax authorities, and the biggest Dutch social network. As of 2013, his favorite technology stack is Meteor with CoffeeScript. He's a cofounder of Hitchwiki.org, the ultimate resource for hitchhikers. You can visit his website at http://guaka.org/ and also connect with him on Twitter at @guaka.

Tomasz Trejderowski is a middle-aged developer from Poland with hands-on experience in many programming languages and a wide range of IT aspects. He has been programming computers since the very first Commodore 64, which he received in his youth, and thus poses over 20 years of overall software development experience. You can access repositories and contributions on his GitHub profile and GitHub organizations that he is a part of at https://github.com/trejder.

He is a full-time PhoneGap and Yii2 developer and mobile market entrepreneur, constantly working on many innovative international start-ups and projects. You can visit his company website at http://gaman.pl/ for more details.

Tomasz holds a PhD degree and has authored five books and over 40 articles (mostly in Polish). He is a happy husband of a wonderful wife and the father of two beautiful daughters.