Devnology Podcast 049 - Mathias Verraes

This episode is an interview with Mathias Verraes. Mathias is an independent consultant, based in Belgium. He advises companies on how to build enterprise applications for complex business domains. As a team leader, he helps developers to use best practices. He specializes in curing large legacy projects: writing tests for untestable code, refactoring to Domain Driven Design, and giving applications a second life. Follow Mathias on twitter: @MathiasVerraes

This interview was recorded on the 2nd of November 2014 in Kortrijk. Interview by @freekl and @pjvds

• Mathias blogs on http://verraes.net/#blog
• He offers several workshops
• Book: Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans
• Book: Implementing Domain-Driven Design by Vaughn Vernon
• More on Event Storming
• Mathias is one of the founders of DDD Belgium
• There are also 'chapters' in Copenhagen, Paris and Krakow
• DDD eXchange by skillmatter is the yearly DDD conference
• We mention HHVM/Hacklang (Facebook's backwards compatible PHP replacement)
• The PHP Specification: http://hhvm.com/blog/5723/announcing-a-specification-for-php
• Presentation: Modelling By Example (Using BDD to drive both the UI and domain model)
• Behat (a BDD framework for php) and PHPSpec were mentioned.
• In the interview we mention PHP implemented in PHP, but mixed up https://github.com/ircmaxell/recki-ct and https://github.com/ircmaxell/PHPPHP
• More info on FP with DDD through Cyrille Martraire and fsharpforfunandprofit
• Book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
• Book: Refactoring by Martin Fowler

This podcast is in English - Deze podcast is in het Engels