Ben Forta

Ben Forta

Oak Park, Michigan, United States
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I am Adobe Systems Inc's Senior Director of Education Initiatives. My primary…

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    Proud to be involved with an organization focused on local hunger relief.

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    - 7 years

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    "New Vision for Education" Steering Committee Member

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  • Adobe ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit: ColdFusion 10 Enhancements and Improvements

    Adobe Press

    ColdFusion 10 was built to make your applications safer, more scalable, and more powerful, and to make programming more efficient. The enhancements and improvements detailed in this volume (which is an update to the three-volume Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit) will empower you to fully leverage the true power of ColdFusion. It starts with coverage of new techniques in web application development, particularly the growth of web standards technologies like HTML5. The second…

    ColdFusion 10 was built to make your applications safer, more scalable, and more powerful, and to make programming more efficient. The enhancements and improvements detailed in this volume (which is an update to the three-volume Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit) will empower you to fully leverage the true power of ColdFusion. It starts with coverage of new techniques in web application development, particularly the growth of web standards technologies like HTML5. The second section describes ColdFusion 10 language and programming enhancements, focusing on CFML, CFScript, XML, and Java. In the final section you’ll learn how to use modern development practices like deploying applications in the cloud, the latest administration and security techniques, and more.

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  • Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes

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    The world's best selling introductory SQL book, now in its fourth edition, and now with full color code examples.

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  • Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 3: Advanced Application Development

    Adobe Press

    Written by the best known and most trusted name in the ColdFusion community, Ben Forta, The ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit is the best-selling ColdFusion series of all time. Volume 3: Advanced Application Development, focuses on application security, scalability and high-availability, and integration with other systems and technologies. The book starts with two sections dedicated specifically to scalability and security, and then focused on extending ColdFusion applications using…

    Written by the best known and most trusted name in the ColdFusion community, Ben Forta, The ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit is the best-selling ColdFusion series of all time. Volume 3: Advanced Application Development, focuses on application security, scalability and high-availability, and integration with other systems and technologies. The book starts with two sections dedicated specifically to scalability and security, and then focused on extending ColdFusion applications using web technologies, other languages and platforms, and sophisticated integration techniques.

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  • Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development

    Adobe Press

    Written by the best known and most trusted name in the ColdFusion community, Ben Forta, The ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit is the best-selling ColdFusion series of all time - the books that most ColdFusion developers used to learn the product. This second volume of the series begins by introducing important code organization and management techniques, and then progresses to topics that include integrating with all sorts of other technologies (including PDF, Adobe Flex and Data…

    Written by the best known and most trusted name in the ColdFusion community, Ben Forta, The ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit is the best-selling ColdFusion series of all time - the books that most ColdFusion developers used to learn the product. This second volume of the series begins by introducing important code organization and management techniques, and then progresses to topics that include integrating with all sorts of other technologies (including PDF, Adobe Flex and Data Services, Ajax, advanced SQL and databases, ORM), debugging, and optimizing performance. From design and planning, to application deployment and troubleshooting, this instructional reference is all you need to successfully work, create, and progress with ColdFusion 9.

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  • Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 3: Advanced Application Development

    Adobe Press

    The ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit is the best-selling ColdFusion series of all time—used by more ColdFusion developers to learn the product than any other books. Volume 3, Advanced Application Development introduces advanced ColdFusion features and technologies, including ensuring high availability, security and access control implementations, Java and .NET integration, using feeds and web services, connecting to IM networks, and server OS integration.

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  • Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development

    Adobe Press

    ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development begins by introducing important code organization and management techniques, and then progresses to topics that include integrating with all sorts of other technologies (including PDF, Adobe Flex, Ajax, advanced SQL and databases), debugging, and optimizing performance. From design and planning, to application deployment and troubleshooting, this instructional reference is all you need to successfully work, create,…

    ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development begins by introducing important code organization and management techniques, and then progresses to topics that include integrating with all sorts of other technologies (including PDF, Adobe Flex, Ajax, advanced SQL and databases), debugging, and optimizing performance. From design and planning, to application deployment and troubleshooting, this instructional reference is all you need to successfully work, create, and progress with ColdFusion 8, the the most important ColdFusion since the product was created back in 1995

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  • Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development

    Macromedia Press

    With a slew of advanced new features, ColdFusion MX 7 represents both an opportunity and a challenge for those developing Web apps with it. The opportunity, of course, lies in taking their applications to new and increasingly sophisticated levels. The challenge is digging deep enough into ColdFusion to discover the features and techniques that will take them there. In these pages Ben Forta and the Macromedia team have made this information not only accessible but also easily digestible for…

    With a slew of advanced new features, ColdFusion MX 7 represents both an opportunity and a challenge for those developing Web apps with it. The opportunity, of course, lies in taking their applications to new and increasingly sophisticated levels. The challenge is digging deep enough into ColdFusion to discover the features and techniques that will take them there. In these pages Ben Forta and the Macromedia team have made this information not only accessible but also easily digestible for intermediate and advanced ColdFusion developers. Users won’t want to waste any time before getting down to the serious business of unraveling ColdFusion’s new features so that they can use Structured Business Reports to deliver business data in an understandable format; deploy the ColdFusion language in mobile phones and instant messaging clients; build rich, multistep data-entry forms; use Enterprise Manager to cluster multiple ColdFusion servers on a single machine; and more. Through step-by-step instructions and real-world examples, you’ll learn how to do everything from create secure applications to employ Java components.

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  • Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes

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    Regular Expressions for mere mortals.

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