Lance McCarthy is an exceptional community leader with an acute expertise for all things .NET and C#, especially on the XAML stack, including WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone, and Windows store apps. He is very helpful online, guiding and answering questions from Microsoft developers on Twitter as @lancewmccarthy; he blogs on his own time as well, with a strong focus on Windows Universal apps, at WinPlatform.wordpress.com. He organizes and hosts events in the Boston area, such as user group nights, mini-code camps, and full hackathons.
During the day, Lance is a senior technical support engineer at Telerik, where he supports developers with their Classic Windows, Universal Windows, web and mobile (Xamarin, Android and iOS native) application development.
On the side, Lance writes blog posts for blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/, creates resources for developers (tutorials, sample source code, tips of the week, and so on), and helps the developer community in any way possible.
Previously, Lance worked for Nokia and Microsoft as a Developer Ambassador, where he sought out and engaged developers through outreach programs and provides them with technical support and resources to make them successful on the Windows platforms.
Lance was also an assistant professor at Harvard University, helping students build, market, and publish successful Windows Phone apps. He has also appeared on podcasts, such as the Windows Developer Show, has been a technical editor for publications and books, has won several app building contests and hackathons (including first place in the Microsoft Build 2013 hackathon), and is a published developer with over a million downloads in the Windows Store.
Some of the books that he has reviewed are as follows:
Netdunio Home Automation Projects by Matt Cavanaugh
Mastering Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin by Can Bilgin
Begin to Code with C# by Rob Miles
Engin Polat has been involved in many large and medium-scale projects on .NET technologies as a developer, architect, and consulting, and he has won many awards since 1999. Since 2008, he has been training many large enterprises in Turkey on Windows development, web development, distributed application development, software architecture, mobile development, cloud development, and so on. Apart from this, he organizes seminars and events in many universities in Turkey about .NET technologies, Windows platform development, cloud development, web development, game development, and so on. He shares his experiences on his personal blog (http://www.enginpolat.com). He has MCP, MCAD, MCSD, MCDBA, and MCT certifications. Since 2012, he is recognized as a Windows Development MVP by Microsoft; since 2017, he is recognized as a Visual Studio and Development Technologies MVP too. Between 2013 and 2015, he was recognized as a Nokia Developer Champion-very few people in the world are given this award. Since 2015, he has been recognized as a Regional Director by Microsoft.
He has reviewed a few books for Packt, some of which are as follows:
Mastering Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin
Xamarin Blueprints
Xamarin 4 by Example
I'd like to thank my dear wife, Yeliz, and my beautiful daughter, Melis Ada, for all the support they gave me while I was working on this book project.
I also want to extend a warm welcome to the newest member of my family, my dear son, Utku Ege.