Episodes

Victor Savkin is the author of the Leanpub book Angular 2 Router: The Complete Authoritative Reference. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Victor about his career, Angular, and his book.

Peter Yaworski is the author of the Leanpub book Web Hacking 101: How to Make Money Hacking Ethically. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Peter about his career, how he got into hacking, and his book.

Patrick Applegate is a co-author of the Leanpub book Risk Analysis in the Earth Sciences: A Lab Manual with Exercises in R. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Patrick about his career, climate science, and his book.

Don Jones is an expert on Microsoft's business technology platform and is the author of the Leanpub book The DSC Book: Second Edition. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Don about his career and his book.

Ben Frain is the author of the Leanpub book Enduring CSS: Architect and maintain large-scale CSS codebases. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Ben about his unique career path, his current work, and his book.

Daniel Dib and Russ White are the authors of the Leanpub book Unintended Features: Thoughts on thinking and life as a network engineer. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Daniel and Russ about their careers, their book, and their experience self-publishing on Leanpub.

Janelle Klein is the Austin-based author of Idea Flow: How to Measure the PAIN in Software Development. She is the CTO of the recruitment consultancy New Iron and founder of Open Mastery, a network for peer mentorship based on data-driven mastery of software development. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Janelle about her career, the ideas and experiences that are the inspiration for Idea Flow, the concept of Idea Flow itself and how it can transform the relationship between developers and management to profou...

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp chats with Nicholas Russo, a former Marine Corps Comm officer and current network professional who has earned CCIE certifications in both Routing and Switching and Service Provider. In the interview, Nick talks about his duties as a Comm officer on deployment in wartime, about his remarkable book (which is nearly 3,000 pages long), and what it's like self-publishing a book worth hundreds of dollars on Leanpub. Please note that the views and opinions expressed by Nick are his own, and do ...

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp chats with Amir Rajan, an indie game developer best known for making the bestselling iOS app for the popular text-based game A Dark Room. Amir talks about his career and the ups and downs of his fascinating experience with a big hit on the App Store, and also about his experience self-publishing his book on Leanpub.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founders Peter Armstrong and Len Epp chat with Nick Sutterer, a Sydney-based software developer and popular conference speaker who has published a book on Leanpub called Trailblazer: A New Architecture For Rails. Nick talks about his career, what Trailblazer is and how it came about, and about self-publishing his book on Leanpub.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp chats with Antonio Leiva, author of the Leanpub books Kotlin for Android Developers and 10 consejos para convertirte en un desarrollador experto. Antonio talks about his career, what the scene is like for software developers in Spain, and what it's like to self-publish an in-progress book.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp chats with Alan Richardson, author of the Leanpub books Dear Evil Tester and Java For Testers. Alan talks about the importance of software testing, some good and some bad approaches different organizations take to testing, and what it means to treat testing as a necessary evil.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp chats with David Greenlees, author of the Leanpub book Software Testing as a Martial Art. David talks about how he got into software testing, his martial arts training, and the connections he draws between software testing and martial arts in his book.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp chats with Phil Sturgeon, author of the Leanpub bestseller Build APIs You Won't Hate. In a wide-ranging discussion, Phil talks about his career, his various projects, and his experience writing and selling a bestselling book.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp chats with Claire Bowern, Vice President of the Endangered Language Fund and Associate Professor of Linguistics at Yale University. Claire’s fascinating research includes working with the speakers of a number of languages from Northern Australia. Claire talks about her career, her work, and the two books she has published on Leanpub, Learner’s Guide to Bardi and Learners Guide to Yan-nhagu.

In this interview Leanpub cofounder Len Epp chats with Emmanuel Nataf, co-founder of Reedsy, a marketplace for high-quality publishing services that helps authors find professional editors, designers and marketers. We talk about how how Reedsy got started and about their vision for the future of publishing.

In this interview Leanpub cofounder Len Epp interviews Jeff Geerling, a full-stack developer, author and blogger. We talk about how Jeff got into programming, his bestselling Leanpub book Ansible for DevOps: Server and configuration management for humans, and how he made over $25,000 in sales before his book was finished.

In this interview Leanpub cofounder Len Epp interviews Obie Fernandez, an author, consultant, and current Senior Vice President of Engineering at 2U. We talk about Obie's career and his latest book, Serverless: Patterns of Modern Application Design Using Microservices.

In this interview Leanpub cofounder Len Epp interviews Patrick Kua, a technical leader and agile coach for ThoughtWorks, and the author of two Leanpub books, The Retrospective Handbook and Talking with Tech Leads. Patrick is also a blogger and frequent conference speaker. We talk about how Patrick began his career, his thoughts about the importance of retrospectives, and the various challenges tech leads meet in the course of their work.

In this podcast Leanpub cofounder Len Epp interviews Thomas Davis, a full stack developer based in Brisbane, Australia, and author of Backbone Tutorials: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Thomas is currently the CTO of FPV Racing, a new sport that combines hi-tech drones with high speed racing. He has led and been involved in many projects over the years, and he has a particular interest in building and organizing large open source groups. Thomas has helped millions of website visitors learn Backbone.js through his popular tutori...

Brian Caffo is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health. In this interview he talks with Leanpub cofounder Len Epp about how he first became interested in biostatistics, why it's such an important and growing field, and about his research interests and initiatives.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Paul M. Jones, an internationally recognized PHP expert who has worked for organizations in many different sectors, including medical, non-profit, educational and military organizations. Paul is the author of Modernizing Legacy Applications In PHP.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Jeff Leek, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and author ofThe Elements of Data Analytic Style.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Ryan Bigg, a Melbourne, Australia based software developer, writer and blogger, and author of Multitenancy with Rails.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Roger Peng, Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and author of the Leanpub book R Programming for Data Science. In the interview, Roger discusses his career, his book, and his experiences using Leanpub.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews W. Jason Gilmore, a Columbus, Ohio-based software developer, writer and consultant, and author Easy Laravel 5 and three other Leanpub books. In the interview, Jason discusses his career, his book, and his experiences using Leanpub.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby and now of Wood Egg, a company which is using Leanpub to publish comprehensive guides move to and starting a business in 16 countries in Asia. In the interview, Derek discusses his career, his reasons for starting Wood Egg, and his experiences using Leanpub.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Matthias Noback, author of the Leanpub book A Year With Symfony: Writing Healthy, Reusable Symfony2 Code, discussing Symfony, Matthias's book, and his experiences using Leanpub.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Taylor Otwell, creator of the Laravel PHP framework and author of the Leanpub book Laravel: From Apprentice to Artisan, discussing Laravel, Taylor's book, and his experiences using Leanpub.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Luc Beaudoin, the author of Cognitive Productivity: The Art and Science of Using Knowledge to Become Profoundly Effective, discussing his research interests and his book, and his experiences using Leanpub.