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.
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 […]
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