Darren Cope - Appcelerator Titanium Application Development by Example Beginners Guide

Darren Cope is an experienced Titanium developer having seen the light and the potential of what could be done with Titanium back in early 2011. Since 2011 he has released several cross-platform apps using the technology. He holds TCAD and TCMD certifications and along with creating apps, he has developed modules for the Appcelerator Marketplace. He attended the inaugural CODESTRONG conference in San Francisco in October 2011 and continues to preach the benefits of coding with Titanium through the Appcelerator Titans program. He is very eager to hear from other Titanium developers in the north of England and is trying to start a user group for them. He can be contacted either through his personal website at >.

I'd like to thank Tracey for her love, support, and encouragement during the writing of this book, and thank the writers of NCIS who have provided the background noise for most of the time I was writing this book. I would also like to thank Steve Dawes who reached out to me with an opportunity to develop an app in early 2011 and in doing so started the process that got me here.

Steve Dawes is a delivery-focused IT consultant with senior management experience in global corporations and director level experience in SMEs.

Steve's experience includes end-to-end delivery of software and infrastructure projects, product development, and strategic roadmap formulation and business change in a variety of sectors including transport, retail, finance, construction, postal, and services with implementations of systems developed in e-commerce, the cloud, the Web, mobile, and SOA architectures.

Steve is a member of the BCS and APM and specializes in interim project management and business transformation projects. Steve works through his company Rockwave Consulting Ltd, www.rockwaveconsulting.co.uk.

Stephen Feather is an Appcelerator Titanium titan, holding TCMD and TCAD certifications. He is a frequent speaker on mobile strategies for small business and non-profit organizations. In 1994 he started his own consulting firm working directly with communications companies such as Netscape, Microsoft, and Oracle in the early days of the Internet. In 1996 he wrote JavaScript by Example, Que Publishing , one of the first publications on the then new scripting language. Over the next 17 years, his firm would grow to become a widely recognized vendor of multimedia software for language learning, providing support to colleges and universities throughout the southeastern United States.

In 2009, he co-founded Feather Direct, recognizing a need for quality mobile app development, reputation management, and SEO services for smaller organizations. He volunteers time to assist and train a new generation of mobile app developers through online forums and local user groups.

Imraan Jhetam is a medical doctor and entrepreneur living in England with an equal love for both medical law and technology. He earned his medical degree from the University of Natal in 1983, his MBA from the University of Witwatersrand, and a Master's degree in Law from Cardiff University.

Imraan has been fascinated by computers since his youth and taught himself the basics of programming during his university years. He has been writing programs since the mid 1970s in various languages and for different platforms and has fond memories of his first Apple//e with its then impressive 64 KB RAM.

When he is not busy seeing patients or writing medico-legal reports, he spends his time developing applications and developed Snappa, a social sharing game that is the better way to draw something for friends. This was written using the incredible Titanium Studio tools and Appcelerator Cloud Services and is now in the Apple and Android app stores. He was also third prize winner at the first Codestrong Hackathon with two e-payment apps, PayBill and PayPad , that also included social media, geo-location, photos, and barcodes, and which were developed in a restricted and short time using Appcelerator Titanium Studio.

You can contact Imraan via www.snappa.mobi or via Twitter @The__i.

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