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bphogan

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I am an author, editor, mentor, trainer, and web application developer. I currently maintain http://rendera.heroku.com and http://railsmentors.org. I am the author of "tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development", "Web Development Recipes", "Web Design For Developers" and "HTML5 and CSS3", all published by the Pragmatic Bookshelf, where I currently work as a part-time development editor.

You can follow me on Twitter at @bphogan or contact me at bphogan at gmail

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