On Derick Rethans' weblog today, he has a post that's a reminder about the upcoming php|works conference and his involvement with it.

In two weeks I will be heading to Toronto to speak at php|works. I will speak on several things, perhaps the most surprising one is The PHP Toolbox, where I will actually be talking on PEAR partly when introducing how to set up your own managable PHP Toolbox.

Less surprising talks are PHP and Unicode that discusses the new Unicode features in PHP 6, and How PHP Ticks that goes into some of the inner workings of PHP. With this talk I hope to be creating some awareness of PHP's design limitations and features so that people can better utilize PHP.

I'd be interested to hear that last talk - I think it's great that he's trying to make the internals more accessible to everyone and to give them a better idea of how it all works. Yes, even PHP has limitations, and it's good to know the "outer boundaries" of something before you start...