Sazima Network

Here we share the abstract of an incoming note about the clarification of the distribution of a pipefish species.

“The geographic distribution of the pipefish Anarchopterus tectus in western South Atlantic is clarified based on three museum specimens and an underwater photograph. The known range for this reef pipefish is extended about 4000 km southwards in straight line and about 5500 km of coastline."

(AKA Plugins Roadmap & Compatibility List)

Starting the next killer Web 2.0 application, but would not like to re-invent the wheel? Plugins!

Lego Death Star

There is some amazing work by various guys out there on plugins that should definetly be appreciated while planning any new application. It is possible to assemble a whole aplication by using 3rd-party plugins with little customization.

But wait… There are so many confusing options (ever tried to figure out authentication?)!!! Which plugin should be used for any particular job? Which are outdated? What about Rails 2.0 compatibility? Which plugins were ported or are at least Rails 2.0 safe? No worries, this roadmap is aimed to help you!

The list bellow is a compilation of the most useful and up-to-date plugins out there. Plugins are categorized and include a link to further reference, as well as whether they are Rails 2.0 compatible!

Hope you enjoy!

Cheers, Ricardo

Plugins Roadmap & Compatibility List

Category	Plugin	Rails 2.0 compatible
Administration	ActiveScaffold
Authentication	restful_authentication (+ acts_as_state_machine)
	open_id_authentication	Probably
Cache (memcached)	cache_fu	Probably
Development	exception_notification	Probably
File Upload	attachment_fu
Folksonomy	acts_as_taggable_on_steroids
	acts_as_bookmarkable	Probably
	acts_as_rateable / acts_as_rated	Probably
	civic_duty / acts_as_voteable	Probably
	acts_as_commentable
Localization	globalize
	click_to_globalize
Messaging	restful_easy_messages / acts_as_messageable
Search	acts_as_ferret
Util	bundle_fu / asset_packager
	action_mailer_tls (GMail SMTP)
View	will_paginate
	flashplayrhelpr
	widgets
	acts_as_feeder	Probably
	acts_as_reportable (ruport)
	rupdf (ruport)	Probably
	railspdfplugin	Probably

Last year was very poor on field trips for me. I was dealing with several problems and also studied a lot to write my post-doc project, on biological networks. No field work was planned for this project, since I am working with previously recorded data . However, this year I intend to visit Fernando de Noronha Archipelago again, meet dear old friends and continue with our research on spinner dolphins.

So, I hope we’ll have also interesting pictures when we get back!  =))

CS

Ricardo,

That’s very nice of you! Thanks a lot for all the improvements.

Now I will flood the Sazima Network with my by-products =))

Cheers!

Ivan

Well, finally… We finally have a web page where people may download our papers, get to know a bit of us, contact us and share their experience with us. Ricardo, thanks a lot! I just guess it would never happen without you. You really made our lives a lot easier!

CS

It has already been a couple years since I first promised my family a web site. Somewhere to tell a little of ourselves, show our work, our lives…

But the last years have been really busy! So I kept delaying this, waiting for the proper moment when I had more time. And it finally happened. Thanks to a whole bunch of new technologies, not only the software development involved got much simpler and faster, but I managed to include way more functionality than I would be able before! The Sazima Network features several interesting and useful sections:

• About Us - Who we are, where we came from, and where we are going to. :-)
• Blog - Stay up-to-date with our lives and professional activities.
• Papers - Scientific papers, presentations, essays, …
• Pictures - A picture is worth a thousand words!
• Contact - Drop us a line!

What made all this possible is a new web framework know as Ruby on Rails developed by David Heinemeier Hansson. I was first presented to RoR by Manoel Lemos of BlogBlogs. He is one of the pioneers of RoR in Brazil and showed me how easy and powerful it was. After that I took the well-known AWDWR path and the web took care of the rest.

Sazima.net was developed in about 4 weekends and is based on RoR 2.0.2 and a handful of other software that provide amazing functionality and are a breeze to integrate like gems, plugins and Typo:

• ActiveScaffold
• attachment_fu
• Calendar Date Select
• restful_authentication
• RubyInline
• Typo
• will_paginate

So, I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed developing it! Please link your site/blog to sazima.net and come back soon!

Cheers, Ricardo