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Announcing Better SSL For Your App

SSL is a crucial part of any web app with a login session. As Firesheep demonstrated, HTTPS everywhere is the path forward for modern web apps. Heroku follows this with our own login-protected apps, from the management interface to the Dev Center.

Announcing Better SSL For Your App

Today, we're announcing two new features to make it as easy as possible for you to secure your app running on Heroku with SSL.

First, all …

Heroku’s new, free PostgreSQL 9.1 development database

Introducing the newest plan in the Heroku Postgres line-up: dev. It is an updated replacement for the PostgreSQL 8.3-based shared database add-on. This plan is available immediately in public beta:

$ heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:dev

It can also be provisioned through the Heroku add-ons catalog.

What's New?

This new dev plan offers increased parity between our free database service and our paid, production plans. New features include:

A Good Day For Postgres: Postgres.app, Postgres Guide, and Schemaless SQL

Today has been a very good day for Postgres.

We here at Heroku love Postgres, and we aren’t afraid to show it. Here’s how three different Herokai showed their PG love in three awesome ways in the last 24 hours:

Postgres.app is the easiest way to run PostgreSQL on the Mac. Just open the app, and you have a server up and running with Postgres 9.1 and PostGIS 2.0. PostgreSQL has not been the easiest …

Heroku Changelog: Track Changes to the Heroku Platform

The Heroku Changelog is a feed of all public-facing changes to the Heroku runtime platform. While we announce all major new features via the Heroku blog, we’re making small improvements all the time. When any of those improvements have any user-visible impact, you’ll find them in the changelog.

Some recent examples of posts to the changelog include new versions of the Heroku CLI, a new error code, and changes to logging.

To …

Matz Named 2011 Free Software Award Winner

We are pleased to announce that Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby and Heroku's Chief Ruby Architect, has received the 2011 annual Advancement of Free Software Award.

Java Template Apps on Heroku

Editor’s Note: The functionality described in this blog post has been replaced by Heroku Button. The Heroku Elements marketplace now lists hundreds of template apps that can be easily deployed. Check out Heroku Elements to find an app to deploy.

Learning a new language or framework can be both fun and rewarding. But tutorials only get you so far: one of the easiest ways to get started is by copying an existing sample app.

Today …

Introducing key/value data storage in Heroku Postgres

One of the great strengths of PostgreSQL is extensibility. Just as the JVM has become more than a way to just run Java—spawning languages such as Clojure and Scala—PostgreSQL has become more than just a home to relational data and the SQL language. Our first officially supported Postgres extension, hstore, enables you to build better apps faster without sacrificing the power, reliability, and flexibility of the underlying PostgreSQL storage engine.

By using hstore, you …

Heroku Toolbelt: CLI, Foreman, and Git in One Package

The Heroku Toolbelt is a package of the Heroku CLI, Foreman, and Git — all the tools you need to get started using Heroku at the command line. The Toolbelt is available as a native installer for OS X, Windows, and Debian/Ubuntu Linux.

The Toolbelt has been available since last fall as part of our polyglot platform. Since then it’s matured substantially with a huge amount of user testing, and now even has a …

PostgreSQL 9.1 Is Now the Default on Heroku Postgres

We’re constantly involved in improving Postgres on behalf of our users. That kind of work includes building new features into our platform like data clips, tracking down bugs uncovered by our users and getting them fixed, and working to bring the needs of our users to the attention of the developer community driving the project forward.

Of course, all that pales in comparison to the work the community does every day, and there’s no bigger …

Java Hackathon

This weekend, join us for a Java Hackathon at the Heroku office in San Francisco.

We've decided to kick things off with a contest. To enter, build a creative and/or useful application that enables or manages interactions with customers or potential customers via social media channels. It can be any social media channel, and your app will be judged on how well it fits the contest criteria as well as the quality of your concept …

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