Gustavo De La Vega Alvarez - Instant Phonegap

Gustavo De La Vega Alvarez's IT history started when he was an eight-year-old kid. His father gave him a personal computer that worked with cassettes and 5 " diskettes. He played Buck Rogers in the 21st century. Now, we are in the 21st.

He started programming with an Apple II in the third grade and continued with the Logo programming language. Now, he has his own company, called NativApps that develops mobile apps for third parties using cross-platform languages such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, tools such as PhoneGap, and innovative technologies such as augmented reality.

His education was divided between Business Administration and Computer Science at Universidad de los Andes in Bogot, Colombia. He started to teach Down Syndrome kids in 1999 on topics such as how to use the PC, word processors, and MSN messenger. His first job as an IT engineer was developing hotel-booking software for a company where his aunt had a job, and another billing software for a law firm. In the early 2000s, he was working for General Motors Colmotores and left the job in 2003 to establish his first company, ProActive Consulting. This company started to work with mobile software and ERPs such as PeopleSoft and SAP. In 2009, he decided to start exploring HTML5 and related tools to develop web apps. Finally, in the same year, he was introduced to PhoneGap since that moment, he has been a PhoneGap believer and a passionate cross-platform developer.

First, I would like to thank God for everything. Thanks go to all the people who helped me in producing this book. Guys, without you, this book would not have ever been done. Thanks to Manuel Cantillo Pareja for his help with the code. Thanks to my whole family, especially to my wife Olga Lucia and my daughter Laura Maria, for supporting me to make my dreams come true. And yes, thanks to my aunties too. Finally, a huge thanks to Juana Gutierrez and Carolina Escobar, who taught me the way to enjoy life day by day. Girls, you rock!

Evan Mullins was always interested in both design and technology. He studied Digital Media and earned his BFA at the University of Georgia. While attending college, he also studied Computer Science, Animation, and New Media. He has been doing web design since 2003, picking up HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and even PHP. He has been building interactive sites since 2004 and is mostly a self-taught programmer. He loves the cross-section of art and technology in which we find web design.

Helping out at Indie Music PR firm, Team Clermont, and then Cartoon Network New Media during school, he knew for sure that the Internet was the place for him. During post graduation, he jumped on board helping a slew of start-ups and small businesses with websites until he found himself as a creative developer at Ogilvy. Currently, he is the Interactive Director at the Atlanta Branding and Marketing Agency Brand Fever. Along the way, he learned about client relations, best practices and art direction, and was up to date with the current technologies. He now keeps himself busy by designing and developing interesting things online.

Since 2004, Evan has also maintained circlecube studio as a freelance web studio, and even a playground for open source experiments, examples, and to simply share tips he learns along the way. The blog's content centers around interactive design principles and technologies. He gives back by sharing what he learns online as well as at conferences.

Evan is happily married and a proud father of 4. He enjoys spending time away from work with his family, his church, and unplugging to be outside camping and/or playing music.

Zainul Setyo Pamungkas is a web developer who is interested in mobile development. He has been involved in web development for four years, primarily working with PHP and sometimes with Java. After playing around with Java for Android development for some time, he switched to start mobile development using web technology.

For the past three years, he was a freelance web developer. Currently, he is working for an Indonesian company named Digital Semesta as a mobile developer and service integrator. He works with web technologies including PHP, Laravel, HTML5, jQuery Mobile, RESTful API, and SOAP web services. Mobile development is done using web technologies and the PhoneGap framework.

I'd like to thank God for giving me everything as I can't mention it one by one. I'd also like to thank my parents who have always supported me.