Ben Forta is the Adobe senior product evangelist and the author of numerous books, including ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit and its sequel Advanced ColdFusion Application Development, as well as books on SQL, JavaServer Pages, WAP, Windows development, and more. Ben co-authored the official ColdFusion training material, the certification tests and Macromedia Press study guides for those tests, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing, speaking, and writing about application development worldwide.
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Hands On: Building ColdFusion Powered Ajax Applications
Grant Skinner is the CEO and chief architect of gskinner.com, a Flash development and consulting company. He works with leading new media agencies and progressive corporate clients to create cutting-edge applications, games, and multimedia pieces. His expertise in fusing coding with interface design, usability, marketing, and business logic has garnered him international acclaim and resulted in a number of prestigious industry awards, including Best Canadian Developer at FITC 2005. Grant maintains an active blog at gskinner.com/blog/ and an exhibit of his experimental work at incomplet.org.
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Building Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Applications Using Flash CS3
Mike Chambers has been creating applications integrating Flash with server-side technologies (ColdFusion, Java, ASP, and PHP) for a number of years. He is currently the senior product manager for developer relations for Apollo. He has written and spoken extensively on Flash and rich Internet applications and is coauthor of Flash Enabled: Flash Design and Development for Devices as well as Generator and Flash Demystified. Mike received his Masters in International Economics and European Studies from the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 1998.
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Boot Camp for Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
Erik Natzke is an interactive designer who is constantly trying to blur the lines between design and technology. With a keen awareness for how and where to push the limits of the medium without isolating the audience, Erik is a consistent risk-taker. Crediting his success with having the willingness to fail and the stubbornness not to give up, Natzke's work ethic has pushed the boundaries of what previously had been considered possible. Imagination, adventure, and a desire to amaze as much as entertain are all part of the driving forces behind his work. Named one of the Top 10 Young Designers by HOW magazine, Natzke's commercial, as well as personal, works have received numerous awards within the fields of both design and advertising.
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Online Ads That Attract
Duane Nickull works as Senior Technology Evangelist for Adobe. He participates in many architectural and developer forums on various subjects including Web Services, SOA, Ontology and Computational Intelligence as well as writing frequent trade publications on Web 2.0. He is currently the chair of the OASIS SOA Reference Model TC and has worked on previous technology architectures for W3C (Web Services Architecture) and the United Nations. He is also in the process of writing a book on Web 2.0 for O'Reilly Media and Publishing.
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Forms Gone Wild
Raymond Camden is an independant contractor providing ColdFusion, AJAX, and Flex development.. Raymond has many years experience working with the web and web applications. He is the co-author of Allaire Spectra E-Business Construction Kit and Mastering ColdFusion 4/4.5/5/MX. Raymond is a member of Adobe Community Experts and has presented at numerous conferences across the country. He can be reached at ray@camdenfamily.com. You can find his blog here: http://ray.camdenfamily.com
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Working With Data Feeds
