About CooperCode
CooperCode's principal is Ken Cooper. He's been writing OO code since 1973, and still can't seem to pry himself away from it.
Lately Ken's been dabbling with various technologies, looking for a new direction. You can currently find him playing around with Hoocoodanode, a commenting system for the excellent financial blog Calculated Risk.
Recent projects include Jitsu, an open source AJAX framework; CodeSkipper, a class browser for Visual Studio; and CR Companion, a Firefox extension for Calculated Risk.
Prior to CooperCode, Ken was a UI architect at Microsoft, contributing six patents in his work on ASP.Net and the Windows Presentation Foundation.
In earlier work as a founder of Cooper & Peters, he co-wrote Eyeopener, a Java UI framework and application suite subsequently purchased by Microsoft. In the early 90's he coauthored several popular tools for the Smalltalk environment: Widgets, a UI framework and interface builder; WindowBuilder, an interface designer; and edIt, a programmer's editor.
His earliest work consisted of rocket simulations in Alan Kaye's lab at Xerox PARC. At least, that's how his mom referred to them.