He made his first contact with programming around the age of 8, with QBasic. Later on, he created a simple website with HTML and some simple JavaScripts. After a lot of self-study, he learned the web development language PHP and started to develop websites with PHP. A few years ago, he started to use the Zend Framework and since then, he made some contributions, like the Zend_Markup component (included in ZF since 1.10).