Charlie Arehart
Ben Forta is Adobe Systems Inc.'s Senior Technical Evangelist, and is one of the best known and most trusted names in the ColdFusion community. Ben is the author of numerous books on ColdFusion, SQL, Regular Expressions, and related technologies, and ½ million Ben Forta books have been printed in more than a dozen languages worldwide. He writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide.
Charlie Arehart
Ben Forta is Adobe Systems Inc.'s Senior Technical Evangelist, and is one of the best known and most trusted names in the ColdFusion community. Ben is the author of numerous books on ColdFusion, SQL, Regular Expressions, and related technologies, and ½ million Ben Forta books have been printed in more than a dozen languages worldwide. He writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide.
Jeffrey Bouley
Ben Forta is Adobe Systems Inc.'s Senior Technical Evangelist, and is one of the best known and most trusted names in the ColdFusion community. Ben is the author of numerous books on ColdFusion, SQL, Regular Expressions, and related technologies, and ½ million Ben Forta books have been printed in more than a dozen languages worldwide. He writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide.
Jeffrey Bouley
Ben Forta is Adobe Systems Inc.'s Senior Technical Evangelist, and is one of the best known and most trusted names in the ColdFusion community. Ben is the author of numerous books on ColdFusion, SQL, Regular Expressions, and related technologies, and ½ million Ben Forta books have been printed in more than a dozen languages worldwide. He writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide.
Raymond Camden
Ben Forta is Macromedia's Senior ColdFusion Product Evangelist , has two decades of experience in the computer industry and is a much sought after speaker and lecturer. Ben is also the author of this book’s popular companion volume Advanced ColdFusion Application Development as well as books on SQL, JSP (JavaServer Pages), WAP, and other technologies.
Ben Forta
Ben Forta is Adobe's Senior Director of Education Initiatives and has more than three decades of experience in the computer industry—in product development, support, training, and product marketing. He is the author of the best-selling Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes as well as titles on SQL Server T-SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, and MariaDB; Learning Regular Expressions; and Captain Code, which teaches Python to younger coders (and those young at heart), Java, Windows, and more. He has extensive experience in database design and development, has implemented databases for several highly successful commercial software programs and websites, and is a frequent lecturer and columnist on application development and Internet technologies. Ben lives in Oak Park, Michigan, with his wife, Dr. Marcy Forta, and their children. He welcomes your email at ben@forta.com and invites you to visit his website at http://forta.com.
Ben Forta
Ben Forta is Adobe's Senior Director of Education Initiatives and has more than three decades of experience in the computer industry—in product development, support, training, and product marketing. He is the author of the best-selling Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes as well as titles on SQL Server T-SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, and MariaDB; Learning Regular Expressions; and Captain Code, which teaches Python to younger coders (and those young at heart), Java, Windows, and more. He has extensive experience in database design and development, has implemented databases for several highly successful commercial software programs and websites, and is a frequent lecturer and columnist on application development and Internet technologies. Ben lives in Oak Park, Michigan, with his wife, Dr. Marcy Forta, and their children. He welcomes your email at ben@forta.com and invites you to visit his website at http://forta.com.
Sarge Sargent
Ben Forta is Adobe Systems Inc.'s Senior Technical Evangelist, and is one of the best known and most trusted names in the ColdFusion community. Ben is the author of numerous books on ColdFusion, SQL, Regular Expressions, and related technologies, and ½ million Ben Forta books have been printed in more than a dozen languages worldwide. He writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide.
Sarge Sargent
Ben Forta is Adobe Systems Inc.'s Senior Technical Evangelist, and is one of the best known and most trusted names in the ColdFusion community. Ben is the author of numerous books on ColdFusion, SQL, Regular Expressions, and related technologies, and ½ million Ben Forta books have been printed in more than a dozen languages worldwide. He writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide.
Robi Sen
Ben Forta is Adobe Systems Inc.'s Senior Technical Evangelist, and is one of the best known and most trusted names in the ColdFusion community. Ben is the author of numerous books on ColdFusion, SQL, Regular Expressions, and related technologies, and ½ million Ben Forta books have been printed in more than a dozen languages worldwide. He writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide.
Robi Sen
Robi Sen is the Vice-President of Department13, a software consultancy focusing on e-procurement, supply chain management, enterprise application integration, and web services. Formerly, he was the Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Software Development at Granularity, Inc. Mr. Sen has been working professionally in the software development world for the last 15 years, since he was recruited at the age of 16 to develop software systems for Westinghouse Hanford Co. and the Department of Defense.
Mr. Sen's chief areas of interest are in the creation of a new breed of network-based applications and the development of intelligent agents, which are software systems that can interact with humans and other machines in a thoughtful manner. These systems make context-appropriate decisions for their users, without having to receive instructions from those users. He is also interested in the development of web services.
He is a sought after speaker and speaks to user groups, universities, and at major conferences all over the United States.
Jeff Tapper
Jeff Tapper is a founding partner and senior consultant at Digital Primates. He has been developing Internet-based applications since 1995 for a myriad of clients, including Major League Baseball, ESPN, Morgan Stanley, Conde Nast, IBM, Dow Jones, American Express, Verizon, and many others. He has been developing Flex applications since the earliest days of Flex 1. As an instructor, Jeff is certified to teach all of Adobe’s courses on Flex, AIR, Flash, and ColdFusion development. He is also a frequent speaker at Adobe Development Conferences and user groups. Digital Primates provides expert guidance on rich Internet application development and empowers clients through mentoring.
Jeff Tapper
Jeff Tapper is the Chief Technologist and CEO for Tapper, Nimer and Associates, Inc. He has been developing Internet-based applications since 1995 for a myriad of clients including Morgan Stanley, Doctations, Toys R Us, IBM, Dow Jones, American Express, M&T Bank, Verizon, and many others. He has been developing Flex applications since the earliest days of Flex 1. As an Instructor, Jeff is certified to teach all of Adobe’s courses on Flex, ColdFusion, and Flash development. He is also a frequent speaker at Adobe Development Conferences and user groups. Jeff Tapper and Mike Nimer formed Tapper, Nimer and Associates provide expert guidance to rich Internet application development and empower clients through mentoring.
James Talbot has been with Adobe (formerly Macromedia) for more than six years, on both the sales engineering and training teams, and has most recently been working with Flex and Flash Lite. He has traveled extensively throughout the world promoting Adobe products and certifying Adobe instructors as well as speaking at conferences. James has been an integral team member on high profile rich Internet application consulting assignments for companies such as AOL / Time Warner, JP Morgan, Fidelity, and TV Guide.
James is actively involved in the Adobe worldwide instructor and developer community, and contributes to developer certification exams as well as organizing and speaking at user groups. James is passionate about Flash on devices as well as rich Internet applications and he believes that both technologies will change the world for the better.
Matthew Boles is the Technical Lead for the Adobe Customer Training group and has been developing and teaching courses on Flex since the 1.0 release. Matthew has a diverse background in web development, computer networking, and teaching in both professional computer classes and the public schools. In addition to this book, Matthew co-authored
a version of the Certified ColdFusion Developer Study Guide. He has also developed official Allaire/Macromedia/
Adobe curricula in both ColdFusion and Flash development content areas.
Benjamin Elmore is the founder and principal partner of Twin Technologies, an enterprise consulting
company that specializes in delivering rich Internet applications for Fortune 500 companies. Ben has been working in the RIA/Web 2.0 spaces since its inception and has authored several books on a variety of technologies. Ben founded Twin Technologies with a core principle of embracing a shared knowledge base within the development community. When leading Twin Technologies, Ben travels to Africa and Turkey to speak on leadership on behalf of the EQUIP organization (www.iequip.org), whose goal is to raise a million Christian leaders over five years. A devoted family man, Ben lives with his wife Mary and their five children in upstate New York.
Michael Labriola, who has devoted a decade and a half to Internet technologies, is a Senior Consultant and Project Lead for Digital Primates, Inc. He spends his mornings teaching developers to work with Flex; his afternoons creating rich Internet applications that generate significant ROI for clients; and his nights dreaming up ways to use Flex that its designers never intended.
Matt Tatam
Ben Forta is Macromedia Inc's Product Evangelist for server products, and is the leading authority on ColdFusion development. He is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion books including ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, Advanced ColdFusion Application Development, and Certified ColdFusion Developer Study Guide (all published by Macromedia Press). For this title Ben is joined by industry leading ColdFusion and Flash experts Paul Mone, Randy Drisgill, Dennis Baldwin, Greg Rewis, and Matt Tatam.
Matt Tatam
Ben Forta is Macromedia Inc's Product Evangelist for server products, and is the leading authority on ColdFusion development. He is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion books including ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, Advanced ColdFusion Application Development, and Certified ColdFusion Developer Study Guide (all published by Macromedia Press). For this title Ben is joined by industry leading ColdFusion and Flash experts Paul Mone, Randy Drisgill, Dennis Baldwin, Greg Rewis, and Matt Tatam.
Anthony Tilke
Raymond Camden is a developer for Adobe. His work focuses on client side development, mobile applications, Node.js and ColdFusion. He's a published author and presents at conferences and user groups on a variety of topics. Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.raymondcamden.com), @raymondcamden on Twitter, or via email at raymondcamden@gmail.com.