Best-selling ColdFusion Author Ben Forta Keynotes at AFPS 2010

Ben Forta is Adobe Inc.'s Director of Platform Evangelism and has over two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. He is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit series, as well as multiple books on SQL, Regular Expressions, Java Server Pages, WAP, Windows development and more. At India's Adobe Flash Platform Summit, to be held 25-26 August 2010 at NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore, Ben Forta will conduct a visionary keynote on the opening day of the summit.
Over half a million of Ben Forta’s books have been printed in English, and titles have been translated into fifteen languages. He also co-authored the official ColdFusion training material and certification tests and study guides for those tests, writes regular columns on Internet application development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide. For more information and to register for AFPS, visit: www.adobesummit.com.

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