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Devnology Podcast 049 - Mathias Verraes

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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

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

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