Peter Cooper, Ruby Inside
Peter Cooper is an independent consultant and author.
As well as being the author of Apress' "Beginning Ruby", Cooper has also worked as a Ruby trainer and recently sold two Ruby-powered businesses, FeedDigest.com, an RSS feed processing service, and Code Snippets, a popular tagged source code repository.
He is also the editor of Ruby Inside (http://www.rubyinside.com/), the most popular Ruby and Rails news weblog. His official homepage is at http://www.petercooper.co.uk/