Why Cloud Foundry matters to Hackers

Unless you live under a rock, you have heard of Cloud Foundry. However there is still a lot of skepticism out there about PaaS in general and Cloud Foundry in particular. I’ve been an open source hacker for over a decade. Compiling linux kernels, hacking MySQL, and generally getting my hands into every system that I could.

May 28, 2012 2 Comments Read More

AppFog Goes Public Beta

For months now we have been slowly adding folks to the Private Beta of AppFog (our new flagship polyglot and poly-infrastructure PaaS). We know that, for many of you, we’ve been adding developers more slowly than you’d like (speaking, of course, in this case to the thousands of you who are on the waiting list).

May 24, 2012 11 Comments Read More

How We Use Github To Build AppFog

by Troy Howard, AppFog developer Joining AppFog back in February became my first time working for a company using Github private repositories for source control. My previous gig used Bitbucket and Mercurial, which we migrated to from self-hosted SVN, which we migrated to from SourceGear Vault, which we migrated to from Visual Source Safe… etc. That’s how things go at a 12-year-old company, I guess. As

May 24, 2012 5 Comments Read More

A cloud dedicated to PHP apps: say hello to PHPFog

This is a guest post by Vito Tardia, originally published on Cloudspring. Huge thanks to Vito and Cloudspring for allowing us to republish it! PHP Fog is a relatively new cloud hosting provider specifically designed for PHP applications. Their mission statement is “less management, more code” and the entire platform is centered around the most

May 23, 2012 6 Comments Read More

Announcing Express Jumpstarts

Here at AppFog we are committed to making developers’ lives easier. We want to do this not just for our customers – but for all developers. Today we’re announcing a new program that we feel has the potential to make tons of developers’ lives not just easier – but also better. Welcome to our new

May 21, 2012 3 Comments Read More

Time for Cron in PHP Fog

One of the features most commonly requested by developers has been support for cron jobs. We’ve been working on providing solutions for this request and wanted to give you all an update. We’re pleased to announce that native cron job support for apps hosted on dedicated clouds will be available beginning this upcoming Monday, May

May 18, 2012 5 Comments Read More

An evening with the Portland Python Users Group

Hey folks, Luc here. Last week, I did something that I now understand to be an essential element of anyone’s journey from would-be developer to developer: I attended my first programming meet-up. Portland is blessed with an incredibly vibrant start-up and web development culture for a city of its size, and I’ve only begun to

May 18, 2012 0 Comments Read More

Venturing beyond Rails: Sinatra

Hey, folks. Luc here. As you know, a few weeks ago, I began my journey with Ruby on Rails. Here’s my current status report: Starting Rails So far, it’s been a pretty uneven go. Multiple times a day I’ve experienced (a) “a-ha!” moments in which something has become clear to me in a flash and

May 17, 2012 4 Comments Read More

Quite possibly the best Rails tutorial in existence

Hey, everyone. Luc here again. One of the best things about learning Rails has been the community. It’s amazing to see how many great tutorials and guides and forms of documentation have been created out there for beginners, even absolute beginners (as I very, very recently was). The guides section of the Ruby on Rails

May 15, 2012 0 Comments Read More

The developer’s toolkit: raphael.js

Hey, folks. Luc here, coming at you to talk about a pretty, pretty sweet JS library. JavaScript occasionally gets a bad rap as a programming language, but its usefulness if not indispensability for web developers of all stripes is difficult to deny. Yet another case in point: raphael.js. This is a tool that lets you

May 10, 2012 2 Comments Read More

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