Share the Love, Earn Some Cash: Our New Referral Program

We’d never have gotten to tens of thousands of applications deployed on PHP Fog – our PHP based PaaS offering – without all of our awesome users recommending us to friends, writing about us on their blogs and otherwise sharing the love. We just want to say thanks. Give back. So today we’re announcing our

February 29, 2012 0 Comments Read More

Weekly Roundup: Foggers at Large

As we’re shaking off the all grey days here in Portland, Oregon, that can mean only one thing: conference season is upon us. Here’s a bit more on where we’ve been, where we’re going and some of our favorite sightings and reads from the past week. A Deep Dive Into the Fog Whether you’ll be

February 24, 2012 0 Comments Read More

Weekly Roundup: The Week in Pictures

This past weekend, the first ever NodePDX conference took place in our hometown of Portland, Oregon. AppFog was a proud sponsor of #nodepdx, providing the attendees with the official conference tee and AppFog tees. (Speaking of AppFog swag, our Community Manager has been busy sending out tees this week to folks who build cool stuff

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AppFog: Entrepreneur Enabler

From the desk of AppFog’s Director of Marketing, Chris Tacy…. I think everyone understands that PaaS solutions like PHP Fog and AppFog (and, for that matter, all core cloud technologies) are enabling technologies. I do not, however, think that most folks understand exactly what is being enabled. I think people tend to have a very

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PHP Fog and The Smithsonian

Imagine our delight when we discovered that the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum was running their site on our flagship PaaS product, PHP Fog! Normally, we’d be treating you to our traditional Friday round up post right about now; instead, we’d like to share one of our customer’s success stories. Plenty of our team members

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Getting Lean and Solving Problems: Farewell to Git Submodules

Sometimes, you have to let a good thing go. This time around, we’re letting go of something that encourages what we feel is sub-optimal application development. And the great news is that only 0.3% of all applications deployed on PHP Fog use this feature. As of Friday, February 17th, we’ll be deprecating support for git

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Blitz.io and Iron.io Now Available as Add-Ons for PHP Fog

We’re thrilled to let folks know that we’re continuing to grow our add-on program. We’ve added two new partners this week: Blitz.io and Iron.io. We’re very excited about adding these new tools in the arsenal so you can focus on the business of writing excellent applications with velocity and grace, free from worry about your

February 8, 2012 0 Comments Read More

NodePDX: The Tech Conference Not to Miss

Editor’s Note: This week we’re pleased to welcome guest blogger Troy Howard. Among his many accomplishments, Troy is an Apache Lucene committer, the bassist for Lubec andthe organizer of the upcoming NodePDX Conference. Troy was kind enough to give us a preview of the conference and his thoughts on Node, Portland geekery and more. Some

February 7, 2012 0 Comments Read More

Weekly Roundup: NoOps, #FreetheDevs and Un-tether from Your Laptop

Jumpstarts As usual, we’ve been hard at work here at AppFog HQ adding new functionality to our flagship PaaS product for PHP, PHP Fog. We’re huge fans of Twitter, in case you hadn’t noticed, so we’re thrilled to have added a Jumpstart for Bootstrap today. Thanks to Twitter for open sourcing this amazing tool! Head

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Actually… Yes, there IS an App for that!

You are sitting at the airport, waiting for your flight when suddenly a Hacker News story about your wicked cool new product hits. As usage of the product skyrockets, normally you’d be desperately trying to start your laptop and find a WiFi hotspot and connect to the internet… all while watching your product slow… then

February 3, 2012 0 Comments Read More

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