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My third book titled — ‘React-Router Quick Start Guide’ published!

The title says it all. This is my third book with Packt Publishing and I wrote a book after four long years. In the last few months, I’ve spent my weekends writing this book and it was an arduous undertaking. Here’s the cover image: I have used React and React-Router in many projects and during the course of writing this book I’ve learned a great deal about these frameworks/libraries. This book is all about the ‘React-Router’ library and how you can use it any React application (web or native). The book covers the following topics: Chapter 1, Introduction to React Router 4 and Creating Your First Route , is an introduction to the component-based architecture in React and how you can get started with creating routes using the Route component from React Router. Chapter 2, Configuring Routes, Using Various Options in the Route Component , discusses various Route component props that can be used to match the requested URL location and how these matches can be used to render a com

Win a Free e-Book copy of my book - 'Instant Kendo UI Mobile'

I'm giving away two copies of my book ' Instant Kendo UI Mobile '. All you need to do is to send me a message through the 'Contact Me' form, let me know how this book will benefit you and whether you can post a review as well. You can also message me on Twitter or Facebook . You can find out about the book here -  http://www.packtpub.com/kendo-user-interface-mobile/book

My first book titled 'Kendo UI Mobile' is here!!

The title says it all. I had posted a couple of entries on Kendo UI earlier and was approached by Packt publishing to write on 'Kendo UI Mobile'. Writing a book was both a personal and a professional goal that I had set for myself. Today I have realized it and I feel accomplished. For almost everyone, first things are very special. Be it their first job, paycheck, girlfriend\boyfriend, marriage, first kid and anything that happens for the first time in their life. This is my baby and I'm going to celebrate my win today. If you are planning to build a mobile website or an app using Kendo UI Mobile, this book should get you up and running. Here's the link to the page, from where you can learn about the book and buy it - http://www.packtpub.com/kendo-user-interface-mobile/book

Book review: Steve Jobs Way by Jay Elliot

I finally completed reading ‘Steve Jobs Way’ by Jay Elliot. I wanted to know how Apple became so innovative and so successful and I knew that Steve did an awesome job to bring this company to a state which is very well known today. Before I started reading this book I had a notion that this book would focus on how hard work or dedication would pay off and all that stuff that one would generally see in any book. This book was different. Different in a way that it taught me the qualities a leader in any industry should have.