Peter Cooper

Current

• Editor in Chief at Ruby Inside

Past

• Owner at Feed Digest
• Consultant at Globat.com
• Associate Editor at JupiterMedia Corp.

• Web Engineer and Systems Administrator at The First Input
• Press Relations Officer at Design.Net

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Industry

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Websites

• My Website
• Company I Just Sold
• Ruby Inside

Peter Cooper’s Summary

I have built and sold Internet companies and am now taking a breather before getting back on the saddle and finding a new project to work on. Trying to keep it fun!

Peter Cooper’s Specialties:

web applications, scaling, entrepreneurship

Peter Cooper’s Experience

• Editor in Chief

  Ruby Inside

  (Publishing industry)

  March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)

  I edit and maintain Ruby Inside (http://www.rubyinside.com/), the most popular Ruby programming language weblog (20000 subscribers). There are a number of ancillary sites too - RubyFlow - JRuby Inside - Rails Inside - Yo Rails.

• Owner

  Feed Digest

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  2004 — September 2007 (3 years )

  25,000 users, 250 million digests served per month, profitable.
  
  Update: Sold company!

• Consultant

  Globat.com

  (Internet industry)

  2002 — 2006 (4 years )

• Associate Editor

  JupiterMedia Corp.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  March 1999 — February 2000 (1 year )

  Was editor of WebDeveloper.com

• Web Engineer and Systems Administrator

  The First Input

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  July 1998 — May 1999 (11 months)

  Lots of Linux sys-admin, network design and maintenance, and Web development. Being a printing company at heart, I picked up a lot of print industry knowledge that has seen me good ever since.

• Press Relations Officer

  Design.Net

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  July 1998 — August 1998 (2 months)

Additional Information

Peter Cooper’s Websites:

• My Website
• Company I Just Sold
• Ruby Inside

Peter Cooper’s Interests:

Ruby, entrepreneurship, Rails, developing, web applications, scaling

Peter Cooper’s Groups:

•    Rubyists
•    Sinatra Web Framework

Peter Cooper’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch