Resolve to make 2013 Cloudier: You could win a GoPro HD Hero Naked camera!

The contest has now closed. Thanks to everyone who commented and tweeted their Cloudy New Year’s Resolutions! We’re going through all of your entries now and will be announcing our six winners of the GoPro HD Hero Naked cameras shortly, so stay tuned. For those just tuning in, here’s what the contest involved. We encouraged

December 21, 2012 27 Comments Read More

Two reasons why PaaS is so much more than automation

Bruno Terkaly is a heck of an interesting and intelligent guy. I suggest you check out his many videos and writings. As a fellow developer evangelist, I look up to Bruno a lot. And like him, I’m heavily invested in the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) paradigm, as you can well imagine given that I work at AppFog.

December 20, 2012 0 Comments Read More

AppFog’s Holiday Gift to Developers – A New Affordable Paid Plan

As we head into the holidays, it’s time to think of the special gifts we want to give to the people we care about. And here at AppFog, we care a whole lot about developers. So, we’ve been doing some thinking here at AppFog HQ, trying to figure out the perfect way to express our

December 19, 2012 8 Comments Read More

Exo IDE is now integrated with AppFog!

There’s probably nothing “wrong” with your current development environment. It likely consists of your preferred text editor, a browser, a version control server like GitHub, and perhaps a few other elements. People have been doing things this way for a long time and have done lots of wonderful things with it. But people also did

December 18, 2012 4 Comments Read More

AppFog Private PaaS Webinar Recap

Did you miss Lucas’ Enterprise Private PaaS webinar? Do you want to know how you can deploy AppFog on-premise? Or how to migrate apps between public and private cloud (or across both)? Never fear – we’ve got your back. We captured the webinar and are sharing both it and Lucas’ slides from the webinar so

December 17, 2012 0 Comments Read More

How to make WordPress absolutely blaze on AppFog (part 1)

WordPress and I have a weird history. I have several failed WordPress blogs in my personal history, extending back as far as 2004 (which is about the time when people stopped remembering that “blog” is short for “weblog”). I had one devoted to my first summer living abroad, another devoted to stuff I was reading

December 11, 2012 26 Comments Read More

Deploying custom PHP apps on AppFog

We like jumpstarts on AppFog. We like enabling people to almost instantly deploy a basic “Hello world” app that can act as a placeholder for a future, more sophisticated app. We currently offer a variety of jumpstarts in our console, including four for PHP: a jumpstart for custom PHP apps, Drupal apps, WordPress apps, and

December 6, 2012 8 Comments Read More

AppFog now supports Node 0.8!

Questions we’ve gotten recently: “When is Node 0.8 support coming?” “Why don’t you have support for Node.js v0.8?” “I need Node 0.8 for my project to work on AppFog!!” Okay. We get it. You want Node 0.8. tl;dr We now support Node 0.8. longer If it wasn’t clear already, we’re enormous Node.js fans at AppFog. We’ve

November 29, 2012 6 Comments Read More

Managing multiple MySQL databases with the phpMyAdmin jumpstart on AppFog

Last week, I posted a tutorial on using AppFog’s phpMyAdmin jumpstart for easily managing MySQL databases in your browser. At the time, using this jumpstart was possible only by cloning a GitHub repo and then running af push from within that repo. It was a decent solution, but we realized later that enabling users to

November 28, 2012 6 Comments Read More

Tutorial: RabbitMQ + Node.js on AppFog

A few weeks back, we announced that we were introducing Redis and RabbitMQ support on AppFog. I was extremely excited about this and am looking forward to seeing what people do with these tools. I got the ball rolling with a Redis/Sinatra tutorial, and now I want to show you how to get started with

November 27, 2012 2 Comments Read More

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