Robert Cooper is a JEE developer with 15 years of web development experience. He is a contributor to several open source projects, including the ROME RSS/Atom API plugins for Podcasting and MediaRSS, is the author of the FeedPod text-to-speech podcasting system, and the gwt-maven plugins for supporting Maven based builds for Google Web Toolkit.
Raised in Cane River, Louisiana, R. Steven Page attended the University of New Orleans. He has hawked stocks and bonds, crewed ships in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, worked as a bodyguard, a nightclub promoter, and other rackets that shall remain unindicted co-conspirators. Now hanging his hat in Seattle, he spends his time writing, blogging and dishing out upscale Southern favorites such as braised possum trotters.