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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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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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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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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