On 7PHP.com today Khayrattee Wasseem has posted his latest interview with a member of the PHP community - this time it's Derick Rethans "The Father Of The PHP Swiss-Army Knife aka Xdebug".

In this edition I talked with Derick Rethans the Father Of The PHP developer’s Swiss-Army Knife aka Xdebug. Derick is an expert when it comes to the PHP Internals; no wonder he is viewed as a vibrant and “man of action” within The PHP Community. As a PHP Core Contributor, he has been at the crux of many PHP extensions and variations; the mcrypt, date and input-filter extensions, bug fixes, additions and even leading the QA team.

Derick answers questions about how he got involved with PHP and how he thinks it compares from then to now. He also talks some about what tools he uses for his development and more details behind Xdebug's origins and PHP extensions in general.