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.
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.