The full title should read: People I want to learn from in the PHP Community Day 3 - Derick Rethans

I’ll never forget my first PHP conference, php|works in Toronto: the first time I met Derick. There had just been a talk on internationalization, templating, and performance (at least, I think that’s what it was), and I made some crazy suggestion. During the next talk slot I got to sit beside Derick (OMG a PHP core developer is talking to me!) while he hacked up an extension to make my suggestion work. It was never committed to core or anything, he just worked it up, compiled PHP (a simple feat that impressed me greatly back then), and demonstrated the new extension. It was just an interesting puzzle that he spent a few minutes working on and sharing with me.

Derick knows a lot, about pretty much everything PHP related (or time, I don’t even wear a watch and Derick could probably tell me when daylight savings time started on the west side of Utah this year). But he is also ready and willing to sit down and just hack things out with anybody. Despite being a "celebrity" in the PHP world, and a core developer to boot, I’ve always found him incredibly approachable.

Derick: I'd like to learn more from you.