About the Reviewers
Saeed Afzal is known as Smac Afzal. He is a professional software engineer and technology enthusiast based in Pakistan. He specializes in solution architecture and the implementation of scalable high-performance applications.
He is passionate about providing automation solutions for different business needs on the Web. His current research and work includes the futuristic implementation of a next-generation web development framework that reduces the development time and cost, and delivers productive websites with many necessary and killer features by default. He is expecting the launch of his upcoming technology in 2016.
He has also contributed to the book Cloud Development and Deployment with CloudBees, Packt Publishing.
More detailed information about his skills and experience can be found at http://sirsmac.com. He can be contacted at <sirsmac@gmail.com>.
I would like to thank the Allah Almighty, my parents, and my wife, Dr. H Zara Saeed, for encouragement.
Altaf Hussain is an electrical engineer on paper and a software engineer at heart. He is an e-commerce and mobile applications enthusiast. He has a bachelor of engineering degree in electrical engineering (specialized in computer and communication) from Pakistan. He worked in numerous organizations as a backend developer and then moved to Saudi Arabia as a software engineer.
Currently, Altaf is working in the fashion industry at shy7lo.com. He is managing dedicated servers, different VPSs, staging servers, and gitlab instances for fast deployment. As a senior team member, he is responsible for creating cross-platform mobile applications and APIs. Also, he is working on different caching systems, such as Varnish and Full Page Cache. In his free time, Altaf writes posts for http://www.programmingtunes.com/.
I would like to thank and congratulate the author for writing this amazing book. This is a must-have book for frontend and mobile app developers.
Anirudh Prabhu is a software engineer (Web) with more than 5 years of industry experience, specialized in technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, PHP, jQuery, Twittter Bootstrap, and SASS. Also, he has entry-level knowledge of CoffeeScript and AngularJS.
In addition to web development, he has been involved in building training material and writing tutorials for http://www.twenty19.com/ on the following topics:
- Learning to build websites with HTML and CSS
- An introduction to jQuery
He has been associated with Apress and Packt Publishing as a technical reviewer for several of their titles.