Zak Mandhro

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Jun

My Projects

Posted by Zak Mandhro  Published in ruby

This page is shows information about projects that I am current working on outside of my day job as Senior Manager at BearingPoint.
Famiva – where families live online
Famiva is a private social network, genealogy and collaboration platform designed for families. Built on Ruby on Rails and Java, Famiva sports powerful yet easy-to-use features that allow [...]

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16

Jun

Designing Databases with ActiveRecord Conventions

Posted by Zak Mandhro  Published in rails

Based on Ruby on Rails Philosophy and ActiveRecord Default Naming Standards
Underlying Philosophy
The goal of IT systems is to provide support the business objectives. IT departments have been guilty of focusing too much on their individual function, such as database administration or Java development, digressing into engineering perfect and losing focus of the bigger [...]

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16

Jun

Setting up Intel Mac for Rails development

Posted by Zak Mandhro  Published in rails

I am happy to report back that I had no problems switching to MacOS as my development server. Moreover, MacOS interface felt just natural – as if I always knew how to use it. It could be because of all the things that Ubuntu and GNOME has taken from MacOS, like the preferences dialog, and [...]

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16

Jun

Java will learn from and adopt to Rails

Posted by Zak Mandhro  Published in java, rails

Ruby on Rails is proof, complex web applications don’t have to be complicated. Big kudos to David Heinemeier Henson and the Rails committers. Thanks for the wake-up call. The question is, what do we do with Java now? In the long run, what matters is whether the developer community at large is going [...]

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Zak Mandhro
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My Products

  • BabyBook.me Twitter + Facebook powered memory book and live journal
  • Famiva.com Social Network for Families
  • ROXML Ruby Objects for XML
  • uddi4r UDDI for Ruby

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  • @kevinrose kindle is a device for reading books.. Why does it give up real state to keyboard? 11:03:10 PM July 28, 2010 from Flipboard in reply to kevinrose
  • Power.com awarded AlwaysOn 250 at Summit at Stanford. Kudos to Steve Vachani and Eric Santos. #sas10 09:05:50 AM July 28, 2010 from Twitter for iPhone
  • Verdict: TextMate with Rails + Git + Shoulda bundles is usable. But RubyMine does it all better. http://bit.ly/AsOhL 09:26:36 PM July 25, 2010 from Tweetie for Mac
  • Learning TextMate after ignoring it for years. http://bit.ly/94NhkC 11:31:50 AM July 24, 2010 from Tweetie for Mac
  • MailChimp design and UX is sensational! 11:23:50 PM July 23, 2010 from twitgether
  • Waiting for next @rubymine EAP. 96.552 is quite buggy. But then, it is EAP. http://bit.ly/dkKg3Q 06:13:03 PM July 23, 2010 from Twitter for iPhone
  • {LESS} rocks! CSS with variables, mixins, operations and nested rules http://www.lesscss.org 09:23:09 PM July 10, 2010 from web
  • Infinityward: you guys are f'ing amazing! Thank you for MW2. 12:37:51 AM July 10, 2010 from Twitter for iPhone

RSS Famiva Blog

  • Bug fix with invitation acceptance
  • Back Online
  • You’re In Control - Give Us Feedback!
  • Sampa Migration Now Available
  • Migrate from Sampa to Famiva - automatically!
  • Happy Father’s Day Gift - BabyBook.me
  • We’re Back
  • Introducing GEDCOM Import
  • What’s new with Famiva.com
  • New feature: Universal member search

Recent Entries

  • BabyBook.me – My Latest Project
  • Sign-up for Firefox Download Day
  • SOA with Ruby
  • 8 things Mac OS could do better
  • Leopard delayed. Time to get a Mac.
  • Family2.0 Famiva is live, FINALLY!
  • Edgy on Rails? Get compiling!
  • SD Times – Rails for Tactical Business Applications
  • Using MySQL Full Text Search with Rails
  • Making Firefox work with Dual Screen on Linux

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    • Making Firefox work with Dual Screen on Linux
    • Leopard delayed. Time to get a Mac.
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