Fernando Arconada interviewed me about the subject of testing. He is writing a book about testing Symfony2 applications: Testing para Aplicaciones Symfony2. Fernando will translate this interview to Spanish and and add it to his book, together with the articles in my A better PHP testing experience series.

Who is Matthias Noback?

I’m a PHP developer, writer and speaker. I live in Zeist, The Netherlands, with my girlfriend, a son of 9 and our newborn daughter. Currently I have my own business, called Noback’s Office. This really gives me a lot of freedom: I work as a developer on one project for about half of the week and in the remaining time I can either spend some time with my family or write blog posts, or finish my second book.

Last year in September Len Epp from Leanpub.com interviewed me about my book A Year With Symfony. They have fully transcribed the interview as well as published the recording of the interview.

This is the first time somebody interviewed me about my career and my book writing. I remember back then it made me quite nervous. But I must say that talking with Len was a very good way to shed some light on my own thought process and my personal goals. For instance, who did I have in mind as the reader of my book?