ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ben Forta is Macromedia Inc.'s Senior Technical Evangelist, and has over two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion book of all time. Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit and its sequel Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development, as well as books on SQL, JavaServer Pages, Windows development, Regular Expressions, WAP, and more. Over ½ million Ben Forta books have been printed in more than a dozen languages worldwide. Ben co-authored the official Macromedia ColdFusion training material, as well as the certification tests and Macromedia Press study guides for those tests. He writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide. Ben welcomes your e-mail at [e-mail] and invites you to visit his web site at http://forta.com/ and his blog at http://forta.com/blog.

Raymond Camden is the Director of Development for Mindseye, Inc. He has been developing with ColdFusion for numerous years and has authored many books on the subject. He serves as the technical editor for the ColdFusion Developers Journal and is the manager of the Acadiana Macromedia Multimedia User Group. Raymond is the creator of the Common Function Library Project (www.cflib.org), an open source repository of ColdFusion User Defined Functions. Raymond's blog can be found at http://www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog, and he welcomes any emails at [e-mail].

Leon Chalnick is the President of Advanta Solutions, Inc. (www.AdvantaSolutions.com) a consulting firm specializing in ColdFusion application development in Long Beach, California. Leon has worked on 4 previous editions of this book and has been an active member in southern California' ColdFusion developer community since its inception in the mid-1990s. He is also a guitarist who plays frequently in the Los Angeles area and writes for www.GuitarAmplifierMagazine.com.

Angela Buraglia used to be a makeup artist for independent film, but she left her career for one where she could work from home and raise her son. Although she only aspired to be a Web developer, unintentionally she became that and more. She is perhaps best known as the founder of DreamweaverFAQ.com which she still runs today with Daniel Short. Angela is the co-author of Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Killer Tips with Joseph Lowery as well as a co-author of Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic and has contributed in various capacities to various other Dreamweaver titles. Angela's future plans are to continue developing DreamweaverFAQ.com, to build and sell Dreamweaver extensions, and to continue her involvement in Cartweaver. Long gone are the days of applying makeup; now Angela applies her variety of skills to Web development.