To be honest, I was a little worried about the conference -- many see Symfony and ZF as being in competition, and that there would be no cross-pollination. I'm hoping that between Fabien, Stefan, and myself, we helped dispel that myth this week. The fact of the matter is that no single project can be fully comprehensive, and do everything perfectly.

He talks a bit more about the real difference between most of the MVC frameworks out there (tooling and communities) and each framework's development goals. Matthew's goal was to show Symfony developers that it's not just about staying within the ecosystem of your selected framework when developing - you need to branch out and find the right tool for the job. Sometimes that's found in the Zend Framework, other times it's elsewhere.

Since the last time I blogged about the next Symfony Live Conference, I have a whole lot of exiting news. First of all, because I receive a lot of questions about the language of the conference, I want to say again that the whole conference will be held in English only. As a matter of fact, I can tell you than people from 24 countries have already registered for the conference.

Updates to the sessions include the addition of Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Dustin Whittle. The Training Day will be right before the conference and will have five tracks going at once. Check out the post for more on the updated sponsor listing.

The conference will be held in France, Paris, between February 15th and February 17th. Besides the technical sessions, it is also a unique occasion to meet the symfony community and the symfony core team as many of them will be present during the conference. The registration is still open, and the early bird price has been extended until the end of October. So, register today to get your ticket to the "must-attend" symfony conference of the year and save money.

The three day even will feature speakers like Fabien Potencier, Stefan Koopmanschap and Lukas Smith will include topics like internationalization, Doctrine 2, optimization of Symfony apps and a look at Symfony 2.

As announced in June, the Symfony Live 2010 conference will take place in February. As many companies from around the world asked us how they can sponsor the event, we have worked on a sponsor guide, which is now available for download. If you have any question, don't hesitate to send us an email.

The deadline for the Call for Papers is September 15th (coming up soon!) and the Early Bird pricing only lasts until September 30th!