Matt Aimonetti
Who’s Matt Aimonetti?
I’m a developer/hacker working mainly with Ruby. Over the years I have been involved with many popular Ruby projects such as Merb, Rails, MacRuby and many others.
Why Ruby & Merb?
Ruby is an awesome language. It is powerful, flexible and enjoyable. Ruby 1.9 has some major performance improvements and a better threading model. Ruby has a vibrant and growing community and developers new to Ruby seem to fall in love with its philosophy and approach.
Merb is a fast, flexible and agnostic Ruby framework. It can be considered as a Rails fork, focusing on a different targeted audience: people with custom needs and performance requirements not fulfilled by Rails 2. Since its conception, Merb and Rails have merged and become Rails3, which is bringing the best of both world.
From my view point, Rails3 is the best web framework out there. It gets you up and running in no time, offers incredible flexibility and improved performance, while still enforcing conventions. The amount of open source plugins and libraries is just impressive.
What does your typical day look like?
I usually don’t wake up too early, but early enough to spend some time with my family before heading to work. I work at Sony Playstation (SCEA), located 10-15 minutes away from where I live in San Diego.
Working on video games is really fun and using Ruby to do that is just icing on the cake. I’m lucky to work with a team of talented developers and live in a great city.
What do you do in your free time?
Some free time is usually spent working on Open Source projects and writing my MacRuby book for O’Reilly. I also enjoy spending time with my family, playing video games, watching TV shows/movies, hiking and eating out.
What OS do you prefer?
OSX, it seems to be the best solution for what I do.
Small picture of your Workplace?
Sorry, I’m not allowed to take a pic but imagine a desk with a debug PS3 a TV as well as a macpro with dual monitors ;)
Favorite: Color, Font, Language, JS Framework?
Blue, my wife’s handwriting, Ruby, JQuery.
The things that inspired you?
My dad’s motivation, various music and art forms, Matz’ philosophy, my Amstrad PC1512.
What do you prefer, the freelance work or the full time employee?
It depends on the project. The big advantage of working on freelance projects is that you don’t get stuck on boring projects for too long, but at the same time, you don’t get to feel ownership over great projects. I’m currently really happy working as a full time employee on various projects/games.
Your personnel projects and goals for 2010?
Finish my MacRuby book, become better at what I do and spend more time away from computers.
I took 1 st home loans when I was 32 and that helped my relatives a lot. But, I need the financial loan as well.