As of the 1st January 2009, all houses, apartments, offices, etc sold or rented must have an Energy Certificate. Its like the refrigerators have an A, B, C etc rating…now homes in Portugal has the same thing.

One night in September 2008, I realized that there needs to be an online platform where people can go and find out information and find an “expert” who can calculate this rating. Like the yellow pages of energy certification.

So, we made a proposal to the Government body that manages this stuff here in Portugal and would you know…they accepted it…

I was lucky that the person I wanted to do the site had just left his permanent job (brave guy…leaving his job in a recession…)(but that’s another story…) so the site is designed in Ruby on Rails…my Mum’s name was Ruby so I like this technology…

Today we went live on the first phase…a two week period where the experts will register…

Then we go live to the public, which will allow them to leave ads to request an expert to contact them…

It’s very exciting…and I have to say I am a little proud to have envisioned a project and 5 months later it’s online…

Have a look… www.casacertificada.pt

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My good friend and future trend spotter José Luiz Moutinho, recently introduced me to Ruby On Rails (RoR) (I actually like to refer to this as simply Ruby (Probably because it was my mothers name)). It’s a software code which is supposed to be making the Internet a different place. There is certainly a lot of excitment surrounding Ruby. This is not to say that Ruby is a new technology. However, the last 5 years things have really heated up in the Ruby World.

To the extent that a Portuguese Ruby on Rails website was launched by a group of enthusiasts. It’s worth taking a look and maybe even getting involved.

I have a meeting booked with Pedro Sousa and Francisco Cabrita on the 17th September to discuss how this can be applied to some of the projects I am at present developing. I will tell you more about this as time goes by.

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