The CloudWays blog has posted their latest interview with a member of the PHP community. In this new article they talk with Freek Van Der Herten.

Freek is a Laravel enthusiast and a PHP developer. Also, he has been writing on his blog. He is a developer at Spatie. He lives in Belgium and is a Zend Certified Engineer. He was a speaker at the “Uncon” of PHP Benelux conference 2016.

In the interview Freek answers questions about:

• How he originally got into computers/programming
• His opinions on the Laravel ecosystem
• His views on the overall PHP community growth
• The web development competition in Belgium

There's also a bit about his own hobbies and interests including music, writing articles for "P-Magazine" and reading up on the latest in programming blogs. You can read the full interview with answers to these and many more questions here.