Anne-Gaelle Colom is an open web enthusiast, advocate for good documentation, passionate about mobile and web development and the use of technology in higher education. Anne-Gaelle has been developing for the web since 1995 and wrote her first mobile application in 1996. She naturally combined these two areas of development as soon as mobile devices were capable of browsing the web.
Currently, Anne-Gaelle is a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster in London, UK where she specializes in teaching mobile and web-related topics, with an emphasis on advanced client-side web development, mobile development and mobile user experience. Anne-Gaelle is the documentation lead for jQuery Mobile and a member of the jQuery Board of Directors.
Shameemah Kurzawa started programming since she was at high school. Being motivated to be a system analyst, she pursued both undergraduate and postgraduate studies in business information system and software engineering respectively.
She has been working as a web developer/analyst for the past 8 years; she had worked in the past for Australia's renowned broadcasting company, SBS, and freelances for her own company since 2010. She is currently working in the financial sector with exposure to Business Process Modeling (BPM) tools in addition to her wealth of experience in the web space. Besides work, she enjoys spending her time around family, traveling, cooking, as well as reading about and trying new web technologies.
She previously reviewed Query UI themes and PHP jQuery Cookbook for Packt Publishing.
Troy Miles, aka the Rockncoder, began writing games in assembly language for early computers such as the Apple II, Vic20, C64, and the IBM PC, over 35 years ago. Currently he fills his days writing web apps for a Southern California based automotive valuation and information company. Nights and weekends he can usually be found writing cool apps for mobile and web, or teaching other developers how to do so. He likes to post interesting code nuggets on his blog, http://therockncoder.com and videos on his YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/rockncoder. He can be reached at <[email protected]>.
This is the first book that Troy has ever reviewed, and it was fun and fascinating to get to look over an author's shoulder while he worked.
M. Ali Qureshi, is a web designer and developer based in Lahore, Pakistan. Since 2001, Ali has developed creative, interactive, and usable web solutions, making them a successful technology investment for clients. He has also worked on a number of successful web apps, Facebook apps, web portals, and authored WordPress plugins and themes and osCommerce add-ons.
In Oct, 2014, he left a full-time job as a software architect to concentrate on his freelance work and company, PI Media (http://www.parorrey.com), that he founded in 2002. He currently runs a number of websites, including http://www.wppim.com, http://www.flash-greetings.com/, http://www.eventsinsydney.com/, and http://traveltourism.com/. He regularly makes contributions to the latest tips and trends in web design, PHP, WordPress and CMS development, Flash ActionScript, and Facebook App Development on his blog, http://www.parorrey.com/blog/.
Ali works as a consultant, project manager, PHP and Flash AS3 developer, and sometimes as a designer. He has previously done two technical reviews for Packt Publishing's books, jQuery Mobile Framework Beginner's Guide and jQuery for Designers - Second Edition.
When not working, he spends his time blogging and exploring new technologies. He is an avid sports fan and especially likes watching cricket. Pakistan and Australia are his favorite teams. Running along Lahore canal early in the morning and the occasional stroll in Lawrence Gardens, Lahore are things he enjoys a lot.