It will be my first year at South By Southwest Interactive. I’m pretty excited to go and I’m really looking forward to the sessions. I’m going courtesy of Dogster. They’re throwing a party so if you’re over there too, stop by and say “Hi”. Ted, John, and Steven are in a few panels as well so check ‘em out.

In this talk, ZF’s development manager (Wil Sinclair) and Zend chief evangelist (Bradford Cottel) will present the new features and benefits of this free & open-source web framework for PHP programmers and tell you enough to get you started if you’re new to it or to answer some of your questions if you’re already using it. BTW, it’s the only PHP framework to have been selected as a finalist for the Jolt Award for Libraries, Frameworks, and Components. In future meetings, we may be able to get Brad and/or Wil to come back and talk about Zend’s other development tools too and how they work with ZF.