About the Reviewers
Saumya Dwivedi is currently a member of the technical staff of Groupon India Pvt. Ltd. She obtained a BTech degree in Computer Science from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. She is a software enthusiast and worked on the responsive design of Gnome websites during one of her internships. She hails from Indore (Madhya Pradesh) and currently resides in Chennai.
Gabriel Hilal is a full-stack web developer specializing in Ruby on Rails and related technologies. He has a Bachelor's degree in Information Systems (Internet Business) and a Master's degree in Information Systems with Management Studies, both from Kingston University, London. During his time at the university, he developed a passion for Ruby on Rails, and since then, he has done freelance work using behavior-driven development and agile methodologies to build high-quality Rails applications. He can be contacted via his website (www.gabrielhilal.com) or by e-mail at <gabriel@gabrielhilal.com>.
Joydip Kanjilal is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in ASP.NET, speaker, and author of several books and articles. He has more than 16 years of experience in IT, with more than 10 years in Microsoft .NET and related technologies. He has been selected as MSDN Featured Developer of the Fortnight (MSDN) a number of times and also as Community Credit Winner at www.community-credit.com several times.
He is the author of the following books:
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Six in One, Wiley India Private Limited
- ASP.NET 4.0 Programming, McGraw-Hill Osborne
- Entity Framework Tutorial, Packt Publishing
- Pro Sync Framework, Apress
- Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET Ajax in 24 Hours, Sams
- ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials, Packt Publishing
He is the reviewer of the following books:
- jQuery UI Cookbook, Packt Publishing
- Instant Testing with QUnit, Packt Publishing
- Instant jQuery Selectors, Packt Publishing
- C# 5 First Look, Packt Publishing
- jQuery 1.3 Reference Guide, Packt Publishing
- HTML 5 Step by Step, O'Reilly Media
He has authored more than 250 articles for some of the most reputable sites, such as www.msdn.microsoft.com, www.code-magazine.com, www.asptoday.com, www.devx.com, www.ddj.com, www.aspalliance.com, www.aspnetpro.com, www.sql-server-performance.com, www.sswug.org, and so on. A lot of these articles have been selected and published on www.asp.net—Microsoft's official site on ASP.NET.
He has years of experience in designing and architecting solutions for various domains. His technical strengths include C, C++, VC++, Java, C# 5, Microsoft .NET, Ajax, WCF 4, ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API, REST, SOA, design patterns, SQL Server 2012, Google's Protocol Buffers, WPF, Silverlight 5, operating systems, and computer architecture.
He blogs at http://aspadvice.com/blogs/joydip and his website is www.joydipkanjilal.com. You can follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/joydipkanjilal and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joydipkanjilal. You can also find him on LinkedIn at http://in.linkedin.com/in/joydipkanjilal.
I would like to thank my family for providing me with the support to make this book a success.
Anirudh Prabhu is a software engineer (Web) with more than 5 years of industry experience. He specializes in technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, PHP, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, and SASS. He also has knowledge of CoffeeScript and AngularJS. In addition to web development, he has been involved in building training materials and writing tutorials for twenty19 (http://www.twenty19.com/) for the technologies mentioned previously.
Besides Packt Publishing, he has been associated with Apress and Manning Publications as a technical reviewer for several of their titles.
Taroon Tyagi is a dreamer, designer, and a solution architect for mobile platforms and the Web. He is a rationalistic optimist, with lust for food, technology, and knowledge. He has more than 5 years of professional and industrial experience in web, UX, UI design, and frontend development. He currently works as the Head of Design and Interaction at Fizzy Software Pvt. Ltd, based out of Gurgaon, India.
When online, he is constantly involved with web communities experimenting with new technologies and looking for inspiration. When offline, he enjoys music, books, wire-framing, and digging philosophy.
He worked as a technical reviewer for a few books published by Packt Publishing.