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.
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, [...]
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch posted a bizarre rant today about people who aren’t in Silicon Valley. He claims that “if you want to change the world and are willing to do absolutely anything to achieve your dreams, there is no better place to be.” Bullshit, if ever I’ve heard it, and on a par with [...]
MacYay is my latest blog, released to some StumbleUpon users yesterday and properly “launched” today. It’s a Mac tips, tutorials and “resources” site aimed primarily at people new to the Mac or pretty much anyone who’s not a power user. So far I’ve written articles on application launching, taking a screenshot, moving your dock about, [...]
This is about as obscure as it gets, but I thought I’d share. It’s my iTunes equalizer settings for the Harman/Kardon Soundsticks. They don’t sound very good on “Flat” and after a lot of fidgeting around, I got these settings which seem to work well with all sorts of music, classical, rock, and pop (but [...]
In January I was primarily working on a new technology called “SwitchPipe.” It took three weeks from start to completion and was inspired by a popular discussion I fielded on Ruby Inside regarding the difficulties involved in deploying Ruby and Rails Web applications.
The concept I imagined at the start of January was that a proxy [...]
In recent years the various Archbishops of the United Kingdom have filled in the role previously played by Prince Philip by putting their foot in it on their uninformed ideas of modern life. The latest gaff, if you’ve somehow avoided its coverage already, is that the Archbishop of Canterbury, a supposedly “intelligent” man who believes [...]
In just the last ten minutes, news has come out that Microsoft, in its seemingly never ending courtship of Yahoo!, has now proposed an acquisition valued at $44.6bn. This follows suggestions from analysts in the last few days that someone should buy Yahoo!.
It doesn’t mean too much to me, and it’d be nice to see [...]
Anyone who’s been keeping an eye on my Twitter feed or Facebook profile will note I’ve a mild interest in the Myers-Briggs personality categorization system. I take the test every year or two and typically come out as an INTP. Whether you know me or not, the profile given on that page fits me to [...]
Facebook has a built-in advertising system that regular users can use. When you go into it, it asks you for a Web site that you want to promote, then it asks you who you want to target. The targeting page looks somewhat like the screenshot above.
A curiosity of this targeting page is that it tells [...]
As John Resig decided to post his statement showing his book sales and profits, I decided to stand on the shoulders of giants and follow in his brave footsteps. Above is the 9 month statement for my book, Beginning Ruby. I won’t go over all of John’s points as he puts them a lot better [...]
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