It’s the strangest thing to experience an earthquake…of what I found out minutes later, was 5.7 on the Richter Scale
We are on the 12th Floor of a building to the east of Lisbon…remember Lisbon is in an earthquake zone, the last being in 1755, which basically destroyed downtown Lisbon, the most modern city in the world at the time…remember this was in the heyday of Portugal discoveries.
Anyway, as the Actress said to the Bishop….what does a 5.7 feel like: (more…)
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
On the 17th October 2008, I made a presentation at the SHIFT ‘08 Conference, which is an amazing conference on all things web here in Lisbon. I was invited by André Ribeirinho of Adegga.com. What was interesting was that we were both somewhat skeptical on my presentation as it related to sustainable buildings, not anything “web nor tec”. However, it was a good presentation and the audience seemed to have appreciated the content. (more…)
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