Octavia Andreea Anghel is a senior PHP developer, currently working as a primary trainer for programming teams that particpate at national and international software-development contest. She consults on developing educational projects at national level. She is coauthor of the book "XML technologies - XML in Java" (Albastra, ISBN 978-973-650-210-1), for which she wrote the XML part. In addition to PHP and XML, she's interested in software architecture, web services, UML and high-performance unit tests. She also published dozens of articles about PHP technologies and frameworks, on large audience websites like :PHPbuilder.com, InformIT and PHP Solution popular magazine.