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
Links for this podcast:

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