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 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 […]
There have been a few Twitter messages about various “coding fonts” today, so I thought I’d put up a little demo of Liberation Mono (or download the tarball directly). I’ve used Bitstream Vera Sans, Inconsolata, Consolas, and a few others, but Liberation has proven to be streets ahead of any of those for both its […]
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 […]
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