Still haven’t entered the AppFog/Cloud Foundry video contest? Here’s proof that you can win

As many of you have read, we’re currently running a video contest in conjunction with Cloud Foundry. The guidelines are simple: you create a 30-second video (or shorter) showing you using or talking about AppFog and Cloud Foundry, be it a tutorial or anything else you want. Some of you have said that creating a

October 31, 2012 Comment Read More

It’s time for true 21st century web dev: AppFog now supports Redis…AND RabbitMQ

No doubt about it: Redis is the absolute bomb. Since our GA launch a few months ago, Redis support has been one of the most frequently requested features for AppFog, and we’re thrilled to deliver on our repeated promise to make Redis a reality as soon as humanly possible. Now, Redis is ready to use

October 30, 2012 Comment Read More

Update: new changes to the AppFog Ruby gem

That’s right, folks: it’s time for another update of the AppFog CLI tool. Welcome to version 0.3.18.10 of the af Ruby gem! Over the last few months, we’ve rolled out some pretty significant updates to the af gem, including the ability to create and manage database services and to have the full scope of AppFog’s

October 29, 2012 0 Comments Read More

AppFog project management with Appsecute

Over the last few months, we’ve gotten a lot of questions from users about how to enable management of a single project by a variety of users on AppFog. For example, work groups at an agency or development firm may want to collaborate on a project internally, or even externally with developers at a client’s

October 26, 2012 Comment Read More

Announcing the AppFog Cloud Foundry Video Contest!

We love giving our customers prizes! So we’re doing it again. After the success of our OpenStack Birthday Obfuscation Contest, this time we’re doing something a bit different. Along with the wonderful folks at Cloud Foundry (w00t w00t), we are giving you the chance to win one of seven GoPro NAKED Hero cameras. These things

October 26, 2012 0 Comments Read More

The developer’s toolkit: Ender.js

You guys know me. You know that I talk a lot of things up in this space. I can’t help it. I’m a generally excitable person. But one thing I have never said is that I’m completely blown away by something. Well, now is that time. I am completely blown away by Ender. What problem

October 24, 2012 6 Comments Read More

PIE PDX Demo Day shows why Portland will continue to be a startup powerhouse

If you haven’t heard of the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE PDX) yet, you probably will soon enough. It is a phenomenal institution, and numerous companies, from Urban Airship to Simple to yours truly, have benefited enormously from their association with PIE PDX. In an extremely short period of time, it has become a pillar

October 19, 2012 Comment Read More

New horizons in Node.js: App.js and WebRTC

It’s hopeless trying to keep up with developments in the Node.js community. Believe me, I’ve tried. Once upon a time, I held out hope that I would be able to keep my finger on the pulse of Node-related discourse, but it all turned out to be in vain. New modules are added and updated to

October 15, 2012 4 Comments Read More

My first web development project: a Backbone blog engine

tl;dr: I’ve taken my development learning to the next level, making real use of my GitHub repo. I’d like your help on my project, a front-end blogging engine that will eventually have persistence via connection to a server. I started working here at AppFog in April. You might remember my first post way back then.

October 8, 2012 3 Comments Read More

Time to welcome our new add-on partners: Nexmo and Cloudinary

In the last few months, we’ve added a number of new add-on possibilities to AppFog in a variety of spheres, including MemCachier for caching support, StatsMix for business analytics, and MongoLab for MongoDB database-as-a-service support. Today, we’re proud to announce new add-on partnerships with two companies that operate in spheres where we have not yet

October 3, 2012 0 Comments Read More

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