I've recently been hired by Zend as a PHP developer for them. Many thanks to Andi, Daniel, Mike, and especially Matthew for their consideration and support throughout the process.

I start on Tuesday, and will be spending three weeks out in California as part of my initial time with them. After that, I'll be telecommuting from home (in Memphis TN). I'm very excited about this change of employment; Zend are big guns in PHP world, and it's a big deal to me to be working for them. :-)

I'm not sure yet as to my specific duties, although I get the impression it will be for internal development (not client work). I don't know if I'll be part of the framework development process (although I sure hope so!). Obviously there are non-disclosure issues, so I may not be able to talk about my work there much (although again I hope I will be able to do so, as I think Zend suffers from a little closed-mouthedness in regard to the wider PHP community, and could do with some regular blogging).

What does this mean for Solar, Savant, Yawp, and the rest of my public projects? In a philosophical sense, I don't know; but in a practical sense, I see no reason why my work on these will suffer or drag in any way, once the first few weeks in California are complete.

So if I'm less responsive to emails than normal for the next 3-4 weeks, that's why. :-)

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