Sara Dornsife

How would you like to win $1 million in a hackathon? Seriously.

As you know, Heroku is part of the Salesforce Platform. A platform with a growing developer community and broad range of technologies that developers have used to create amazing solutions. So at Salesforce, we thought we’d cook up a little surprise. OK, a huge surprise: the world’s first hackathon with a single $1 million prize.

It’s on. Come to Dreamforce. Build a …

Editor's note: This is a guest post from Michael Buckbee of Meta/SpaceGlasses.

SpaceGlasses are augmented reality glasses that actually work. They let people control systems with a gesture, see virtual objects on top of the real world and create technology that would make Tony Stark proud.

Prior to joining Meta, I had developed and managed a number of high traffic Rails sites. I was brought on to help move the company’s website from a single …

The new Heroku platform API is out in public beta. Come join our API team for an API Hack-a-thon on June 20th at Heavybit Industries (9th and Folsom) for an in-depth look. Doors open at 6:00p.

This hack-a-thon is not a competition, but an in-depth look at the beta release – a chance for you to ask questions and provide feedback to the Heroku API team.

Heroku’s API lead, Wesley Beary, will start …

On 15 May, join Heroku for the London Fork-a-thon, a hack-a-thon-like event (hands-on and live coding), where Heroku engineers will be available to answer any questions you might have regarding Heroku in Europe, and to help you to fork your app to the Europe region.

Heroku just announced the release of the Heroku Europe region in public beta. The Europe region runs apps from datacenters located in Europe and offers increased performance for customers located …

Waza (技) 2013 is less than a month away and we are excited to have a full lineup of speakers who will be talking about their perspectives on art and technique. In between the talks, take part in an unique blend of conversation and craft through the hands-on workshops led by artisans teaching their trades from origami creations, to take-home woodblock prints, and even a hand-crafted and dyed quilt. Take part in this celebration of …

The Concourse – San Francisco February 28, 2013

Heroku’s Waza (技), the Japanese word for art and technique, is an immersive one-day developer experience focused on craft. Throughout the event you will find technical sessions with added experiences in music, art and technology. The event features technical sessions, hands-on workshops, great food, and traditional music.

Registration is now open! Tickets are $300.

Last year’s event sold out in a matter of hours. Don’t risk missing …

A year ago we we launched Java support with the ability to deploy Maven based Java applications using Heroku’s familiar git based workflow. Many customers, like Banjo, have since taken advantage of the new capabilities and built a wide variety of Java applications on the platform.

With the introduction of Java support, we are seeing growing interest from larger enterprises who are often heavy Java users and who are looking for a platform like Heroku …