Scott Hendersson built his first computer at the age of 11, and has been married to the IT world ever since. In 2011, he made his love of all things tech official with a degree in Information Technology from the University of Colorado Boulder, and now works primarily with web and mobile app development.
Back in 2007, the world met the iPhone for the very first time. After Apple’s product debut, it took less than six months for work to begin on PhoneGap, which would become one of the first and most adopted frameworks for hybrid mobile app development — that is, for apps written simultaneously for multiple platforms using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, rather than coded in native languages.
When compared with the prospect of learning an entirely new language and development environment in order to program iOS (and soon Android) apps, the appeal of this type of development to the already huge population of web developers in the world was palpable.
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