Ben Forta

Benjamin M. Forta (born 1967) was the senior technical evangelist of the Macromedia ColdFusion product line and the primary technical spokesperson for Macromedia's server products. He is presently Adobe's Senior Director of Education Initiatives. His primary responsibility there is focused on students, both and, with an eye towards digital and visual literacy, and the role that Adobe services and tools play in the future of communication and storytelling.

Personal life
Forta was born in, before moving to New York and California. He presently lives in with his wife Marcy and their children.

Career
Forta helped found the website Car.com, which was developed entirely in ColdFusion and later purchased by. He joined Allaire Corporation in February 1998 and became their first product evangelist for ColdFusion prior to the company's.

Macromedia and Adobe
Following the acquisition of Allaire by Macromedia in March 2001, Forta became the senior technical evangelist. With the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe Systems, he became the director of developer relations.

Forta is the author of over 40 technical books (with over 750,000 copies in print) on (including the best-selling SQL book of all time),, ColdFusion, Windows development, JSP, and more. Many of his books have been translated into over fifteen languages worldwide.