Rob Allen has been programming with PHP for over seven years and is a member of the Zend Framework community. He is a contributor to the Zend Framework, developing the Zend_Config component with the help of many ideas from the mailing list. He has also written a popular getting-started tutorial available from www.akrabat.com. He holds a Masters degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Birmingham and started out writing C++ Windows applications. He now concentrates solely on web-based applications in PHP. Rob is the Technical Director of Big Room Internet concentrating on the company's content management framework and future technologies.
