Reliable JavaScript. Lawrence Spencer

      Lawrence D. Spencer

      Reliable JavaScript®

      Reliable JavaScript^®

      Lawrence D. Spencer

      Seth H. Richards

      Reliable JavaScript^®

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      CREDITS

      PROJECT EDITOR

      Christina Haviland

      TECHNICAL EDITORS

      Keith Pepin

      John Peloquin

      PRODUCTION MANAGER

      Kathleen Wisor

      COPY EDITOR

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      MANAGER OF CONTENT DEVELOPMENT & ASSEMBLY

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      MARKETING DIRECTOR

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      MARKETING MANAGER

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      PROFESSIONAL TECHNOLOGY & STRATEGY DIRECTOR

      Barry Pruett

      BUSINESS MANAGER

      Amy Knies

      ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER

      Jim Minatel

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      Brent Savage

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      ABOUT THE AUTHORS

      LARRY SPENCER is Vice President of Application Development at ScerIS, a software and services company in Sudbury, Massachusetts. He and his team create browser-based applications in AngularJS, with a C#/Web API/SQL Server back end. Larry's 35-year career has included stints programming in COBOL, C, C++, C#, and even mainframe assembly language, but he says JavaScript is the most fun. A frequent speaker at Code Camps and other gatherings, Larry enjoys sharing his love of software with the development community. You can find his blog at http://FascinatedWithSoftware.com.

      Larry's outside interests include philosophy, chess, and classical guitar. He lives in Marlborough, Massachusetts.

      SETH RICHARDS has been crafting software professionally since 2002. He got his start programming embedded devices for the bar and nightclub industry and transitioned to web application development in 2007. He has worked on numerous web-based applications ranging from an enterprise-class geographic information system–centric physical asset management system to a social network for product discovery and recommendation.

      Seth graduated from Plymouth State College (now University) in Plymouth, New Hampshire, where he studied computer science and mathematics. He is currently pursuing his M.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Seth's blog can be found at http://blog.shrichards.com, and he can be followed on Twitter at @shrichards.

      ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITORS

      KEITH PEPIN has been developing sites and applications on the web for over 17 years. Early in his career, he fell in love with JavaScript and has been passionately building dynamic user experiences ever since. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Meltwater, and is using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AngularJS, Node.js, and MongoDB to build