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.
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 [...]
“If you believe you’re in a long-term relationship with an all-powerful space daddy, who will, after you die, party with your ghost forever, you can’t have my vote even for Miss Hawaiian Tropic. I can’t trust you with the levers of government because there’s an electrical fire going on in your head. Maybe a President [...]
I’ve been rather impressed two new, free font families, Liberation (download) and Droid (unfortunately you have to go out of your way to extract the Droid family from a developer’s archive - except Droid Sans Mono which is here). Liberation is a font family developed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corp for Red Hat to [...]
The BBC is reporting on some major changes to parking laws coming in March 2008. One of the scariest aspects is that councils will be able to use CCTV images to issue parking fines even with no traffic warden or police present. This could mean that if you stop on double yellows to quickly pick [...]
I’ve decided to pledge my support to the concept of the public domain (although I have released things into the public domain before) and am working on a license I can use with various things I’m going to release in future. The first draft is below. I call it the “Be A Good Guy License” [...]
When I wonder if I’m wasting my time, I remind myself that some people choose to be missionaries, preachers, or priests, and that wasting merely ninety-nine percent of my time is better than going for the full hundred.
Looking through the interesting “Fifty Most Influential Bloggers” reminded me of an old Internet magazine from 2000 I was flicking through the other day before I threw it out. It had the “top 50″ most influential people in the UK’s Internet industry. Looking through the names and faces, I didn’t see anyone you’d consider influential [...]
Quite by chance it appears my latest hobby is collecting interesting books. I’m not really the collecting type, as the only things I’ve collected since my teenage years have been the rather banal DVDs and CDs everyone tends to accrue. With books, however, I’m beginning to feel a little like a real collector, gaining an [...]
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