Preface

In early 2010, I had just finished up a workflow proof-of-concept project and was poking around other projects at Applied Information Sciences, looking for what was next in my software career. Since I had some Silverlight experience and wanted to expand it further, I requested a role on a project to enhance a magazine viewer originally produced by Vertigo (vertigo.com) for Bondi Digital (BondiDigital.com). I ended up rebuilding the processing software that imported the source images and data into the viewer format. This was fortuitous because it was a project role that would continue while many others rotated in and out over the next two years.

When the processing solution was complete, I got involved in the Silverlight area of the application, and it was about this time that Apple’s new toy, the iPad, took off. It seemed to the project stakeholders that an HTML-only version of our viewer would be appropriate, so we got to work. For a traditional ASP.NET and Silverlight developer like me, this was new ground, and it took a number of months and hundreds of dollars in books for me to get my footing with JavaScript and to unlearn all the bits and pieces of ASP.NET that hide the true nature of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.