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.
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I’ve already posted about how I think Carphone Warehouse are a bunch of liars. Turns out it was no small blip on the radar, however. This post forms a summary of all the various problems I’ve found that people have had with The Carphone Warehouse regarding the [...]
I’d rather be considered a tactless prick than someone who lies or doesn’t stick to his promises.
Thanks in part to insatiable customers, however, businesses have discovered that it’s economically viable to trade large amounts of goodwill by not sticking to their promises for the reward of getting a contract signed or more cash in the [...]
Smart / curly quotes might look nice typographically, but they can be a major pain if you want to copy and paste source code onto your blog (as I do with Ruby Inside and Rails Inside). Luckily there’s an easy solution, though it took me a while to discover it.
Basically, go to the functions.php file [...]
I’m just posting this as a record of what occurred and in case it comes in useful to anyone else Googling on the topic.
Yesterday, it appears my DSL / ADSL / broadband provider, Pipex, had some minor outages. Whereas others thought their broadband simply wasn’t working, I discovered otherwise. Everything worked except any HTTP requests [...]
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