Peter Cooper is an author (Beginning Ruby - 2007), entrepreneur (founder of Feed Digest - sold in 2007), publisher (Ruby Inside) blogger (since 1999) and opportunist with eclectic interests in Ruby, open source, RSS, Web 2.0, science and online marketing. He lives in Lincolnshire, England.
His official Web site with biographical information is at petercooper.co.uk.
A quick question that, sadly, I can’t ask on Twitter (if you’re on Twitter, you can follow me here!)
I receive a lot of payments in US dollars via PayPal. These are mostly part of my income. At the end of the year, I have generally just included all of the withdrawals as income for my [...]
I couldn’t find any useful references to installing Phusion Passenger / mod_rails / mod_passenger on a cPanel-based Web server so I stumbled on regardless and managed to overcome the problems I encountered on the way. Those problems and my resolution are all wrapped up here for future use.
Disclaimer
These instructions MIGHT NOT WORK FOR YOU. [...]
Photo credit: James Cridland - CC 2.0 Attribution License
I’ve already posted about how I think Carphone Warehouse are a bunch of liars. Turns out it was no small blip on the radar, however. This post forms a summary of all the various problems I’ve found that people have had with The Carphone Warehouse regarding the [...]
I’d rather be considered a tactless prick than someone who lies or doesn’t stick to his promises.
Thanks in part to insatiable customers, however, businesses have discovered that it’s economically viable to trade large amounts of goodwill by not sticking to their promises for the reward of getting a contract signed or more cash in the [...]
Smart / curly quotes might look nice typographically, but they can be a major pain if you want to copy and paste source code onto your blog (as I do with Ruby Inside and Rails Inside). Luckily there’s an easy solution, though it took me a while to discover it.
Basically, go to the functions.php file [...]
I’m just posting this as a record of what occurred and in case it comes in useful to anyone else Googling on the topic.
Yesterday, it appears my DSL / ADSL / broadband provider, Pipex, had some minor outages. Whereas others thought their broadband simply wasn’t working, I discovered otherwise. Everything worked except any HTTP requests [...]
I haven’t actively released it yet, but Yo Rails! (yorails.com) is a new site I’ve been working on. It’s a compendium of links to useful Rails related content. Unlike many “101 links about x” type sites, however, you aren’t slammed with a giant list of links in one go, but instead you need to work [...]
This is all a rather long way off and pending significant amounts of change, but I rather fancied sharing this in case it changed significantly later on. Just a book cover.
Update:
I was having problems installing VMware Tools on Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) under VMware Fusion but got to the bottom of it.
The next problem was trying to get the mouse scroll wheel to work. I did some Googling and most of the guides suggested I change a single line in xorg.conf (namely, set the “Protocol” of [...]
The latest version of Ubuntu (8.04 a.k.a. Ubuntu Hardy - the world’s most popular Linux distribution) came out yesterday on April 24th. I downloaded it right away to play with on VMware Fusion, my Mac virtualization tool of choice (though I’ve now been told this works in VMware Workstation and VMware Player on the PC [...]
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