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