Site updated at 2012-11-09 04:44:36 UTC

articles/categories/api/atom.xml

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   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/"/>
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   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Matt Aimonetti]]></name>
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   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[Rethinking web service development]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/06/13/rethinking-web-service-development/"/>
-    <updated>2012-06-13T18:19:00-10:00</updated>
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     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/06/13/rethinking-web-service-development</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>While it's true that there are still a lot of places where software isn't
 leveraged and many places where software needs to evolve, software is nearly everywhere!.

articles/categories/clojure/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Clojure | Matt Aimonetti]]></title>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/articles/categories/clojure/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/"/>
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   <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Matt Aimonetti]]></name>
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   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[PulsoConf 2012 - Tour of programming languages]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/10/05/pulsoconf-tour-of-programming-languages/"/>
-    <updated>2012-10-05T15:09:00-10:00</updated>
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     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/10/05/pulsoconf-tour-of-programming-languages</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>During <a href="http://pulsoconf.co/">PulsoConf 2012</a> in Bogotá, Colombia Matt
 Aimonetti gave a talk entitled <em>Tower of
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   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[LA RubyConf 2012 - Ruby: time to move on]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/02/04/larubyconf-2012/"/>
-    <updated>2012-02-04T15:09:00-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2012-02-04T15:09:00-08:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/02/04/larubyconf-2012</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>During <a href="http://larubyconf.org/">LA RubyConf 2012</a> in Los Angeles, CA Matt
 Aimonetti gave a talk entitled <em>Ruby: time to move on</em>.</p>

articles/categories/coffeescript/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Coffeescript | Matt Aimonetti]]></title>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/articles/categories/coffeescript/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/"/>
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   <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Matt Aimonetti]]></name>
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   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[PulsoConf 2012 - Tour of programming languages]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/10/05/pulsoconf-tour-of-programming-languages/"/>
-    <updated>2012-10-05T15:09:00-10:00</updated>
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     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/10/05/pulsoconf-tour-of-programming-languages</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>During <a href="http://pulsoconf.co/">PulsoConf 2012</a> in Bogotá, Colombia Matt
 Aimonetti gave a talk entitled <em>Tower of

articles/categories/concurrency/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Concurrency | Matt Aimonetti]]></title>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/articles/categories/concurrency/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/"/>
-  <updated>2012-10-10T08:57:13-10:00</updated>
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   <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Matt Aimonetti]]></name>
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   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[Data safety and GIL removal]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2011/10/18/data-safety-and-gil-removal/"/>
-    <updated>2011-10-18T15:19:17-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2011-10-18T15:19:17-07:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2011/10/18/data-safety-and-gil-removal</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>After my recent <a href="http://rubyconf11.merbist.com">RubyConf talk</a> and <a href="http://merbist.com/2011/10/03/about-concurrency-and-the-gil/">follow up post addressing the Ruby &amp; Python's Global Interpreter Lock</a> (aka GVL/Global VM Lock). a lot of people asked me to explain what I meant by "data safety". While my point isn't to defend one approach or the other, I spent a lot of time explaining why C Ruby and C Python use a GIL and where it matters and where it matters less. As a reminder and as mentioned by Matz himself, the main reason why C Ruby still has a GIL is data safety. But if this point isn't clear to you, you might be missing the main argument supporting the use of a GIL.</p>
 
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ puts @array.size
   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[About concurrency and the GIL]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2011/10/03/about-concurrency-and-the-gil/"/>
-    <updated>2011-10-03T21:23:54-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2011-10-03T21:23:54-07:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2011/10/03/about-concurrency-and-the-gil</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>During RubyConf 2011, concurrency was a really hot topic. This is not a new issue, and the JRuby team has been talking about true concurrency for quite a while . The Global Interpreter Lock has also been in a subject a<a href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock"> lot of discussions in the Python community</a> and it's not surprising that the Ruby community experiences the same debates since the evolution of their implementations are somewhat similar. (There might also be some tension between <a href="http://engineyard.com">EngineYard</a> hiring the JRuby and Rubinius teams and <a href="http://heroku.com">Heroku</a> which <a href="http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/7/12/matz_joins_heroku/">recently hired Matz</a> (Ruby's creator) and <a href="https://github.com/nobu">Nobu</a>, the #1 C Ruby contributor)</p>
 
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   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[Ruby concurrency explained]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2011/02/22/concurrency-in-ruby-explained/"/>
-    <updated>2011-02-22T22:34:30-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2011-02-22T22:34:30-08:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2011/02/22/concurrency-in-ruby-explained</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Concurrency is certainly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_Net">not a new problem</a> but it's getting more and more attention as machines start having more than 1 core, that web traffic increases drastically and that some new technologies show up saying that they are better because they handle concurrency better.
 If that helps, think of concurrency as multitasking. When people say that they want concurrency, they say that they want their code to do multiple different things at the same time. When you are on your computer, you don't expect to have to choose between browsing the web and listening to some music. You more than likely want to run both concurrently. It's the same thing with your code, if you are running a webserver, you probably don't want it to only process one request at a time.

articles/categories/confoo-ca/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Confoo.ca | Matt Aimonetti]]></title>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/articles/categories/confoo-ca/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/"/>
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   <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Matt Aimonetti]]></name>
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   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[ConFoo.ca - Rails for non Ruby developers]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2010/04/11/confoo-dot-ca-rails-for-non-ruby-developers/"/>
-    <updated>2010-04-11T09:51:00-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2010-04-11T09:51:00-07:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2010/04/11/confoo-dot-ca-rails-for-non-ruby-developers</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>During <a href="http://confoo.ca/">ConFoo Canada 2010</a> in Montreal, Canada Matt
 Aimonetti gave a talk entitled <em>Rails for the non Ruby developers</em>.</p>

articles/categories/design/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: design | Matt Aimonetti]]></title>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/articles/categories/design/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/"/>
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   <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Matt Aimonetti]]></name>
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[Rethinking web service development]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/06/13/rethinking-web-service-development/"/>
-    <updated>2012-06-13T18:19:00-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2012-06-13T18:19:00-07:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/06/13/rethinking-web-service-development</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>While it's true that there are still a lot of places where software isn't
 leveraged and many places where software needs to evolve, software is nearly everywhere!.

articles/categories/gems-amp-libs/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Gems &amp; Libs | Matt Aimonetti]]></title>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/articles/categories/gems-amp-libs/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/"/>
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   <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Matt Aimonetti]]></name>
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   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[Googlecharts 1.5.1]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2010/02/03/googlecharts-1-5-1/"/>
-    <updated>2010-02-03T21:18:23-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2010-02-03T21:18:23-08:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2010/02/03/googlecharts-1-5-1</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>To celebrate the relaunch of this site and since we are waiting for Rails 3.0 beta to be released, I figured I should share with you what I worked on the other night.</p>
 
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   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[Googlecharts featured on Github]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2008/06/27/googlecharts-featured-on-github/"/>
-    <updated>2008-06-27T07:06:00-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2008-06-27T07:06:00-07:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2008/06/27/googlecharts-featured-on-github</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://github.com">Github</a>, probably the most famous social code hosting service just <a href="http://github.com/blog/103-new-homepage">redesigned their homepage</a> and are now featuring hosted projects.</p>
 
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   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[Googlecharts 0.1.0 released with new site]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2007/12/12/googlecharts-0-1-0-released-with-new-site/"/>
-    <updated>2007-12-12T08:02:00-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2007-12-12T08:02:00-08:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2007/12/12/googlecharts-0-1-0-released-with-new-site</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I just released Googlecharts 0.1.0 (few bug fixes and enhancements).</p>
 
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   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[Google Chart Gem]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2007/12/10/google-chart-gem/"/>
-    <updated>2007-12-10T06:43:00-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2007-12-10T06:43:00-08:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2007/12/10/google-chart-gem</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h2>update Nov 11: the gem is finally available <a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/googlecharts/">there</a> or simply:</h2>
 

articles/categories/go/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: Go | Matt Aimonetti]]></title>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/articles/categories/go/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/"/>
-  <updated>2012-10-10T08:57:13-10:00</updated>
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   <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Matt Aimonetti]]></name>
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[PulsoConf 2012 - Tour of programming languages]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/10/05/pulsoconf-tour-of-programming-languages/"/>
-    <updated>2012-10-05T15:09:00-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2012-10-05T15:09:00-07:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/10/05/pulsoconf-tour-of-programming-languages</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>During <a href="http://pulsoconf.co/">PulsoConf 2012</a> in Bogotá, Colombia Matt
 Aimonetti gave a talk entitled <em>Tower of

articles/categories/googlecharts/atom.xml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <title><![CDATA[Category: googlecharts | Matt Aimonetti]]></title>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/articles/categories/googlecharts/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/"/>
-  <updated>2012-10-10T08:57:13-10:00</updated>
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   <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Matt Aimonetti]]></name>
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[Googlecharts 1.5.1]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2010/02/03/googlecharts-1-5-1/"/>
-    <updated>2010-02-03T21:18:23-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2010-02-03T21:18:23-08:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2010/02/03/googlecharts-1-5-1</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>To celebrate the relaunch of this site and since we are waiting for Rails 3.0 beta to be released, I figured I should share with you what I worked on the other night.</p>
 
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Gchart.line(:title =&gt; title, :size =&gt; size, :data =&gt; data, :axis_with_l
   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[Googlecharts featured on Github]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2008/06/27/googlecharts-featured-on-github/"/>
-    <updated>2008-06-27T07:06:00-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2008-06-27T07:06:00-07:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2008/06/27/googlecharts-featured-on-github</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://github.com">Github</a>, probably the most famous social code hosting service just <a href="http://github.com/blog/103-new-homepage">redesigned their homepage</a> and are now featuring hosted projects.</p>
 
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Gchart.line(:title =&gt; title, :size =&gt; size, :data =&gt; data, :axis_with_l
   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[Googlecharts 0.1.0 released with new site]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2007/12/12/googlecharts-0-1-0-released-with-new-site/"/>
-    <updated>2007-12-12T08:02:00-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2007-12-12T08:02:00-08:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2007/12/12/googlecharts-0-1-0-released-with-new-site</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I just released Googlecharts 0.1.0 (few bug fixes and enhancements).</p>
 
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Gchart.line(:title =&gt; title, :size =&gt; size, :data =&gt; data, :axis_with_l
   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[Google Chart Gem]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2007/12/10/google-chart-gem/"/>
-    <updated>2007-12-10T06:43:00-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2007-12-10T06:43:00-08:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2007/12/10/google-chart-gem</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h2>update Nov 11: the gem is finally available <a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/googlecharts/">there</a> or simply:</h2>
 

articles/categories/javascript/atom.xml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <title><![CDATA[Category: JavaScript | Matt Aimonetti]]></title>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/articles/categories/javascript/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/"/>
-  <updated>2012-10-10T08:57:13-10:00</updated>
+  <updated>2012-11-08T20:43:57-08:00</updated>
   <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Matt Aimonetti]]></name>
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[PulsoConf 2012 - Tour of programming languages]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/10/05/pulsoconf-tour-of-programming-languages/"/>
-    <updated>2012-10-05T15:09:00-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2012-10-05T15:09:00-07:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/10/05/pulsoconf-tour-of-programming-languages</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>During <a href="http://pulsoconf.co/">PulsoConf 2012</a> in Bogotá, Colombia Matt
 Aimonetti gave a talk entitled <em>Tower of
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ languages:</p>
   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[First step in scaling a web site: HTTP caching]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2011/07/11/first-step-in-scaling-a-web-site-http-caching/"/>
-    <updated>2011-07-11T10:21:02-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2011-07-11T10:21:02-07:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2011/07/11/first-step-in-scaling-a-web-site-http-caching</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Today my friend <a href="http://twitter.com/mokolabs">Patrick Crowley</a> and I were talking about scaling his website: <a href="http://cinematreasures.org/">http://cinematreasures.org</a> since an article covering his work will soon be published in a very popular newspaper. Patrick's site is hosted on <a href="http://www.heroku.com/">Heroku</a> which comes by default with <a href="https://www.varnish-cache.org/">Varnish caching</a> enabled.</p>
 

articles/categories/language/atom.xml

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   <title><![CDATA[Category: language | Matt Aimonetti]]></title>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/articles/categories/language/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
   <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/"/>
-  <updated>2012-10-10T08:57:13-10:00</updated>
+  <updated>2012-11-08T20:43:57-08:00</updated>
   <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/</id>
   <author>
     <name><![CDATA[Matt Aimonetti]]></name>
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   <entry>
     <title type="html"><![CDATA[Ruby constructs: class, module and mixin]]></title>
     <link href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/07/30/ruby-class-module-mixins/"/>
-    <updated>2012-07-30T14:46:00-10:00</updated>
+    <updated>2012-07-30T14:46:00-07:00</updated>
     <id>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/07/30/ruby-class-module-mixins</id>
     <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>When you first get started with the Ruby programming and you come from a different
 language, the only tricky piece is often Ruby's approach to block/closure/anonymous functions.