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.
I’ve just launched RubyFlow, my new community-driven Ruby news / links site. As is typical for me, I bashed it together in a day, and then went live tentatively yesterday. Just now, however, I turned the taps up to full by posting about it on Ruby Inside. Visitors are now flooding through at a good [...]
That said, Loren Feldman’s attempts are pretty hilarious in their own right.
Sometime in the small hours, Google launched Google App Engine (and more info), a Web application hosting stack/service hosted by Google. Released in the Californian evening, by British morning-time all the beta places were taken.
Cleverly, Google has made the SDK available to all, so we can still get a glimpse at it, but the first [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Paul Robinson, the organizer of the excellent BarCamp Manchester, wrote “The Vision Thing“, a piece where he ponders on the banality of the Web-related industry. Andy Mitchell quickly followed up with “10 Reasons I Hate Where the Web is At” and encouraged me to post a response. This discussion somewhat [...]
Not a very exciting post this, but I just did the latest Apple Software Update to Safari 3.1 and.. Gmail is now totally unusable. Whenever you press Shift or Cmd while in the main composition window, it jumps the focus to whichever previous text box you used. Sometimes if you use Cmd+A to select all [...]
The Metropolitan Police (London’s police force) is actively “asking members of the public to report any suspicious behaviour” in a bid to counter terrorism. They’re doing this with a poster, sticker, and radio campaign. The radio ad is particularly creepy. Listen to the MP3 or check out this script:
FEMALE: How d’you tell the difference between [...]
If you’re heavily involved in the Web 2.0 or related industries, the answer is yes. If you’re anyone else though, the chance is slim. The problem is.. they don’t seem to realize this. It seems that most people within the Bay-area / Web 2.0 / modern Web technology community live in a bubble that stretches [...]
At the start of January 2008, I received my statement from Apress for the sales of Beginning Ruby. I even published it for all to see here. I had some questions to ask, so dropped the publicist (the always excellent and responsive Julie Miller) at Apress a line. She quickly redirected me to someone else [...]
It’s been over six months now since I sold Feed Digest. For the first three months I pretty much did nothing. Then we went on the “holiday of a lifetime” for two weeks. Then I spent the next three months doing nothing. “Nothing” is not literal, of course. I’ve been working hard on Ruby Inside, [...]
Perhaps it’s selection bias, or people are good at exaggerating their social profile, but Facebook is a rather depressing place for the malcontent. No worse time is than when you find people you went to school with and who, in life, you thought were generally going to remain less attractive, successful or popular than you, [...]
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