Ghica van EmdeBoasGhica van Emde Boas has worked for IBM in the Netherlands for 30 years: as relational database developer, as IT Architect, and as a Java developer involved with the largest Java framework ever written, the IBM SanFrancisco Framework. She has been takng part in the development of object-oriented methodologies within IBM. She taught these at IBM's Object Technology University in Belgium and the USA. Ghica participated in writing two IBM red books and she has published two articles, one in the IBM Journal of Research and Development, and one in the IBM Systems Journal. She has co-organized several workshops on Generative Model Transformations at OOPSLA (Object Oriented Programming Languages and Applications), the conference where all new development methodologies were first introduced during the last 25 years. Ghica is now an independent consultant specializing in PHP, MySQL, and AJAX technologies. She helped write the Client Framework documentation for Backbase. She has written two books in Dutch about PHP and MySQL, for Pearson Education and she has contributed considerably to the Dutch translation of Foundations of AJAX (Asleson, Schutta, for Apress). Read More Read Less