Alexandre Magno - Mobile First Bootstrap

Alexandre Magno has worked for 10 years as a web developer, and is currently working as a software engineer at globo.com. He is a very active contributor in the open source community with plenty of projects and acts as a jQuery evangelist and a responsive design missionary. As a multidisciplinary developer, he has strong experience in a wide range of server-side frameworks and CMS such as Ruby on Rails, Django, WordPress, and exploring Node.js. He has developed many libraries that are widely used at globo.com, and was one of the first developers to develop mobile websites with a responsive design in the company he worked at. He is an active contributor of Twitter Bootstrap and the creator of one of its branches, the Globo Bootstrap, which is the first translation of Bootstrap to Portuguese, and also developed some components used in globo.com.

He is very passionate about web development, and he writes about it in his blog at alexandremagno.net. He has already contributed in the publishing of a web magazine about jQuery UI and has even made presentations in some technical events, such as the International Free Software Forum (FISL). Writing this book for him is a great step further, after these achievements.

Besides technology, he is a musician and song writer too. He likes to remember every moment of his life with a music lyric. At this moment, for example, the verse would be "We are the champions, my friend".

Acknowledgements

It was a long journey to get this project into reality, and I would like to thank the team behind this book's publication for their help.

But I would never forget to thank my mom, my family, and friends that support me all the time. I'm sure they're all very excited about this book. Although some of the people who are close to me have no idea what exactly this book is for (for them, I'm just the "nerd guy" or the "geek"), they're still interested in checking it out. It's pleasant to spread the technical knowledge for everyone with a strong demonstration through this book about how the Web is changing society and people's lives. This reason is far enough to make me proud to write this book.

It was very enjoyable to get involved in a new web paradigm and write my piece of contribution to make it a part of the whole new world of web technologies across devices. Mobile First and Bootstrap are powerful sources to make a developer, a designer, or a curious advanced developer get into the brand new mobile web. After this book, you will think about the Web in a different way, and I'm guiding you to meet the new era that will change our minds from fixed width to fluid. So, let's make your mind flexible to think about how to apply Bootstrap correctly with the Mobile First approach and make you capable of doing amazing mobile web projects.

About the Reviewers

Julien Renaux is a software engineer specialized in frontend development. Currently working in France, Julien worked in four continents for companies such as eBay, in which he used Bootstrap since the first release in 2011. He is web-passionate and a JavaScript-aholic, and he loves to learn new technologies and share his experience and enthusiasm on his blog: http://julienrenaux.fr.

Felipe Silva is originally from Rio de Janeiro, and now lives in Brooklyn. He has more than seven years' experience in frontend development. He is now a part of the video team at The New York Times as a senior JavaScript engineer. Previously, he worked at Huge, a digital agency based in Brooklyn, and during that time, he built several responsive products for companies such as Four Seasons, GE Capital, Target, and others. Back in Brazil, he used to work for globo.com, the Internet arm of Globo, which is the largest media conglomerate in Latin America.

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Preface

We are living in a rapidly changing time because of the way we use the Web. To follow up on this currently changing paradigm, the development cycle finds its way to follow this new scenario. The frontend community is building amazing tools to make it possible to deal with so many changes. In the past, we had to deal with browsers that did not respect the standards. Now, we are dealing with new devices with a wide range of features. The Web is going mobile. With so many limitations on one side, and the power of flexibility on another side, the mobile and tablet just cannot be a substitute for the huge and wide desktop screens. The mobile needs are complementary to the desktop's standard nature. On the other hand, there's a brand new opportunity with its mobile use and simplicity that makes us see an ongoing challenge to expand our business. This way we have a presence in the ever-growing online market. The Web is not only limited to a desktop anymore. We have to think wider.