I had a nice chat with Derick Rethans (https://twitter.com/derickr) at PHPBenelux Conference 2016 (http://conference.phpbenelux.eu).

We talked about how he became a British citizen, how Michael Schumacher encouraged him to learn PHP and a bunch of other random things.

We also talked about Derick's career and open source contributions. Derick works at MongoDB (https://www.mongodb.com/) where he focuses on the PHP driver and library.

Derick Rethans is the author and maintainer of Xdebug (https://xdebug.org), the well-known debugging extension in PHP. He is also a well-respected PHP core contributor and release manager.

The video footage of the interview can be found on Youtube: https://youtu.be/APZF9YDRknI

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