Biographies

Ben Forta

Ben Forta is director of platform evangelism for Adobe Systems Incorporated and has more than two decades of experience in the computer software industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion book series of all time, ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, as well as books on SQL, JavaServer Pages, Windows development, regular expressions, and more. More than a half million Ben Forta books have been printed in more than a dozen languages worldwide. Ben helped create the official Adobe ColdFusion training material, as well as the certification tests and study guides for those tests. He writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development and spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide. Ben welcomes your email at [email protected] and invites you to visit his Web site at http://forta.com/ and his blog at http://forta.com/blog.

Raymond Camden

Raymond Camden is a software consultant focusing on ColdFusion and rich Internet application development. A longtime ColdFusion user, Raymond has worked on numerous ColdFusion books, including ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, and has contributed to the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update and the ColdFusion Developers Journal. He also presents at conferences and contributes to online Webzines. He founded many community Web sites, including CFLib.org, ColdFusionPortal.org, and ColdFusionCookbook.org, and is the author of open source applications, including the popular BlogCFC (www.blogcfc.com) blogging application. Raymond is an Adobe Community Professional. He is the happily married proud father of three kids and is something of a Star Wars nut. Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.coldfusionjedi.com) or via email at [email protected].

Charlie Arehart

A veteran ColdFusion developer and troubleshooter since 1997 with more than 25 years in IT, Charlie Arehart is a longtime contributor to the ColdFusion community and a recognized Adobe Community Professional. As an independent consultant, he provides short-term troubleshooting and tuning assistance and training and mentoring for organizations of all sizes and ColdFusion experience levels (carehart.org/consulting). Besides running the 2000-member Online ColdFusion Meetup (coldfusionmeetup.com, an online CF user group), he hosts the UGTV repository of recorded presentations from hundreds of speakers (carehart.org/ugtv) and the CF411 site with more than 1000 tools and resources for ColdFusion developers (cf411.com). A certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer and an instructor for each version since ColdFusion 4, Charlie has spoken at each of the major ColdFusion conferences worldwide and is a contributor to all three volumes of Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit.