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Spotlight: Brian Hogan (Author)

A Hero’s Journey
with Brian P. Hogan
@bphogan

Brian P. Hogan, author of Build Websites with Hugo, discusses his journey to becoming a Pragmatic Bookshelf author.

INTERVIEW

Listen to the complete audio interview here:
https://pragprog.libsyn.com/episode-04-brian-hogan

WIN!

We’re giving away one of Brian’s books to one lucky winner! Simply post a comment or a question in his AMA below, and the Devtalk bot will randomly pick a winner at a time of the author’s choosing … then automatically update this thread with the results!


SHOW SUMMARY

For those who prefer to read rather than listen, the following are highlights from the interview.

Brian Hogan is a software developer, teacher, author, editor, and musician. Since 1995, Brian’s been building websites and web applications using a variety of tools and technology.

But Brian’s journey didn’t stop with web development. He’s been working as a freelance developer for small businesses and has helped countless developers through lectures, mentoring, and of course, books—including Small, Sharp Software Tools, Exercises for Programmers, tmux 2: Productive Mouse-Free Development, and several others for The Pragmatic Bookshelf.

On this episode, Brian talks about his journey to becoming a pragmatic author and what he’s learned along the way. He also spills the beans on what makes for a great bio and how to showcase who you are and what you do.

Listen to the rest of Brian’s story on this episode of the Pragmatic Hero’s Journey podcast.

You can stream the episode here: https://pragprog.libsyn.com/ or subscribe to the RSS feed using the following link: https://pragprog.libsyn.com/rss.


Now that you know his story, check out Brian’s books below!

PragProg Books by Brian P. Hogan

Follow Brian on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bphogan.

Check out what Brian is writing about on Medium:
Command Line Blocks in Hugo

Dont forget! You can get 35% off Brian’s books with the coupon code devtalk.com!


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YOUR TURN!

We’re now opening up the thread for your questions! Ask Brian anything! Please keep it clean and don’t forget by participating you automatically enter the competition to win one of her ebooks!

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bphogan

bphogan

Author of Build Websites with Hugo (and 4 other titles)

@DevotionGeo Thanks for the kind note. I’m really proud of Exercises for Programmers. The first 40 or so of those projects are challenges I gave my class in their first semester programming course I used to teach. I find them great for getting up to speed on a new language too.

DevotionGeo

DevotionGeo

You’re welcome! :slight_smile:
I loved those exercises back then, and I’ll read that book again and will redo those challenges in Erlang and Rust. I also hope to read more of your books like Small, Sharp Software Tools.

AstonJ

AstonJ

I haven’t had time to listen to the interview yet but just wanted to say it’s great to see Brian is still active within the dev community - he was one of the names I often saw crop up in things like Twitter discussions (with Rails folk like DHH) and a decade later he’s still here writing and editing? :003:

So my question is, what have been your favourite moments or pieces of tech in the dev space over that time :blush:

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