Ben Forta
Ben Forta is
Adobe Systems Inc's Senior Director of Education Initiatives. His primary responsibility is a focus on students, both
K-12 and
higher-ed, with an eye towards digital and visual literacy, and the role that Adobe services and tools play in the future of communication and storytelling. He is the author of over 40 technical books (with over 750,000 copies in print) on
SQL (including the best-selling SQL book of all time),
Regular Expressions,
ColdFusion, Windows development, JSP, and more. Many of his books have been translated into over fifteen languages worldwide. Before working for
Allaire and
Macromedia, he founded the website
Car.com, which was later purchased by
Auto-By-Tel. Born in
London,
England, Forta lives in
Oak Park, Michigan with his wife and their children.
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