Sazima Network

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