John Cummings

Ben Forta is Allaire Corporation's product evangelist for the ColdFusion product line. Ben has over 15 years of experience in the computer industry, and spent 6 years as part of the development team responsible for creating OnTime, one of the most successful calendar and group-scheduling products, with over one million users worldwide. Ben is the author of the popular ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, and it's sequel Advanced ColdFusion 4 Application Development, as well as books on JSP (JavaServer Pages), WAP, and other technologies.

Nate Weiss is currently the Tech Director and Chief Architect at OneCARE (www.onecare.com), a company committed to online product support and customer relations. Previously, he was the principal developer at ICES, Inc (www.icesventures.com). He has been fortunate enough to speak at several ColdFusion developer conferences and user group meetings, and was the original owner of the WDDX SDK (available from www.Wddx.org). Visit his website at www.nateweiss.com, which includes a number of ColdFusion custom tags and other goodies.

Neil Ross

John Cummings is a Senior Product Support Engineer with Macromedia, Inc. where he provides ColdFusion application, administration, and code support for many organizations and agencies throughout the United States. In 2001, John worked with Ben Forta and Nate Weiss on the ColdFusion 5 Web Application Construction Kit (Macromedia Press, 2001) as a contributing author.

Neil Ross is a ColdFusion Application Architect with Ciber Inc in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Neil is a Macromedia Certified ColdFusion Developer and was a ColdFusion Consultant during his time with Allaire's Consulting Services. He has worked with clients throughout North America and has conducted public and private classes throughout the US as one of Allaire's "in-house" ColdFusion Instructors. He has published articles and product reviews in the ColdFusion Developer's Journal and is active in the ColdFusion community. Neil is a founding member and currently serves as the manager of the Central Pennsylvania ColdFusion User Group and speaks at ColdFusion User Groups every chance that he gets.

Robi Sen is the Vice President of Department 13, 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.

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.