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Morten Bagai

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RabbitMQ Add-on Now Available on Heroku

Today we're proud to announce the availability in beta of RabbitMQ add-on by VMWare. RabbitMQ is an open source implementation of the AMQP protocol that provides a robust, scalable and easy-to-use messaging system built for the needs of cloud application developers. Getting Started With the add-on, provisioning a fully managed RabbitMQ instance couldn't be easier to do: $ cd rabbitdemo $ heroku addons:add rabbitmq —–> Adding rabbitmq to rabbitdemo… done, v2 (free) $ heroku config RABBITMQ_URL => amqp://uname:pwd@host.heroku.srs.rabbitmq.com:13029/vhost Your application's environment will now have the RABBITMQ_URL set pointing to your new instance. Most modern AMQP clients such as Bunny for…

Apigee Add-on for Twitter Public Beta

If you develop apps for Twitter, this is the add-on for you. The Apigee for Twitter Add-on allows developers to easily access Twitter REST api’s. Through a direct relationship with Twitter, Apigee can offer users of the Add-on vastly increased rate limits automatically. The goal is to ensure that no valid application hits rate limits at all. If you’re developing applications using the Twitter REST api, check out the add-on today. Using it is often as simple as changing your app to use the apigee provided config var endpoint instead of “api.twitter.com”. Full docs are available here, and as always…

Rails 2.3.6+ Dependency Issues

This past Sunday, Rails 2.3.6 was released, and quickly followed by 2.3.7 and 2.3.8. One of the major changes in these new versions is to require a newer version of Rack, specifically 1.1.0, that is incompatible with Rails 2.3.5 and older. Due to the fairly complex ways in which Rubygems resolves dependencies, this can prevent your app from starting – in your local environment as well as when deployed on Heroku. If you’ve been affected by this issue, you would see this error message: Missing the Rails gem. Please `gem install -v= x.x.x`, update your RAILS_GEM_VERSION setting in config/environment.rb for…

Node.js Feedback

The response to yesterday’s Node.js announcement continues to be absolutely amazing. First and foremost, we’re thrilled to see the community share our excitement about Node.js and its potential on the Heroku platform. We do, however, also want to be mindful that we’re still in the experimental phase with this technology here. For this reason, we’re going to proceed carefully and invite testers in small batches. So, if you don’t hear from us right away, despair not. It’ll likely take us a few weeks to get through the current list, and if you’re reading this for the first time, please don’t…

SSL Hostname Add-on Public Beta

Ever since we launched the current IP-based solution at $100/month in response to customer demand, we have been pursuing a cheaper and more elegant solution for SSL with custom certificates on Heroku. Today, we’re happy to announce the public beta of a new SSL add-on that accomplishes this goal. It’s called ssl:hostname, and is priced at $20/month. This new add-on will allow you enable SSL traffic to your application on any subdomain, such as www.mydomain.com or secure.mydomain.com, using your own SSL certificate. Note that this is a paid beta, and you will be charged for using the add-on through the…

We’re Hiring!

Thanks to the continued support of the fantastic Ruby community, Heroku is rapidly growing. We’re determined to keep improving our service for our ever expanding user base, and to that end we’re looking for a few fresh faces to join our world-class team in San Francisco. First up, we’re hiring our first full-time Heroku Evangelist. This lucky person should have a serious passion for Ruby and cloud computing, along with the enthusiasm and ability to communicate to our audience how Heroku can make their lives easier. There will be lots of presentations to make, conferences to visit, and ample room…

Europe Here We Come

Since the beginning of our private beta Heroku has been used by developers all over the world. Recently, we’ve been delighted to see a particularly strong interest from Rubyists in Europe looking to take advantage of the deployment and scalability benefits of our platform. On their trips to Erlang Factory in London and Kings of Code in Amsterdam, Blake and Orion saw immense interest from both individual hackers and established companies. In August I’ll be making the trip to several European Ruby user group meetings to catch up with even more users, and hopefully gain a better understanding of what…

Build Your Live Video Apps With Justin.tv and Heroku

You probably already know all about our friends and fellow Y Combinator alumni at Justin.tv. For the last couple of years, they’ve been driving an explosion of live video content on the web, streaming thousands of channels featuring events and people from all over the world. Today, things are about to get even more interesting as Justin.tv launches an extensive API that allows you to build your own live video apps using Justin.tv’s existing content and their technology platform. Whether you’re looking to enhance your own lifecasting project, or add video-based customer service to your company’s website, the Justin.tv API…

And the winner is… Michael Ansel!

Congratulations to Michael who’s the winner of our Heroku+Twilio Developer contest. Michael got seriously busy, and submitted not one but two projects for the contest! The first is a handy app that tells students, faculty, employees, and visitors at Duke University which places on campus are currently open. Simply call in, and it’ll read you back a list of open restaurants, libraries etc. There’s even a keypad-based search option. Seriously cool stuff! You can try it on the Twilio sandbox by calling (866) 583-6913 and entering 4456-8772 when prompted for a PIN. If that wasn’t enough, Michael also hammered out…

Develop a Voice App with Twilio + Heroku, Win a Netbook

Not too long ago building telephony apps, such as interactive voice response systems, was far out of reach for most web developers. Now, an exciting crop of new startups is rapidly changing that, making it easy to incorporate voice capabilities into any web app, or even build standalone voice apps. Twilio is emerging as one the leading companies in this area, offering a a REST API for building voice apps. The model is simple: sign up for a number with Twilio. When a call comes in, Twilio makes an HTTP request to URL of your choice, containing information about the…

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