Rob Allen has been programming with PHP since 1999 and is a member of the PHP community. He is the lead author of Zend Framework in Action and is a contributor to Zend Framework, developing the Zend_Config component. Rob holds a masters degree in electronic engineering from the University of Birmingham in the UK, 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 in the UK, focusing on project management and the company's future technologies.