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With over 80,000 applications on Heroku, we are frequently asked what type of apps people are building. While there’s a wide range, one of the areas I’ve been most excited about is social apps. We have thousands of social applications around Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms. The Social App Workshop last month was proof of the interest with a sold out crowd of over 150 people filling a basement on a great summer Saturday.

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Last month’s Social App Workshop was a huge success. With a sold out crowd of over 150 people filling the basement of our new office, a great lineup of presenters and some fun coding in the afternoon it surpassed our expectations. Social App Workshop is a hacker event for new and experienced developers working on Twitter & Facebook apps. With a combination of presentations and coding the workshop brings developers together to work on social …

Bundler is quickly shaping up to meet all it’s promise as THE best way to manage your application dependencies. This afternoon we updated Heroku to the latest version – 1.0.0RC5. RC5 addresses all known outstanding issues including the git sourced gems. You can see a full changelog on github.

One key problem Bundler was designed to address was the shifting sands of various gems updating and changing dependencies. As many of you have probably …

Our own Brazilian Pedro Belo will be making two stops in Brazil the first half of August. August 6th and 7th he’ll be speaking at the Oxente Rails 2010 conference. On August 8th he’ll be joining a local meetup in Sao Paulo to talk Ruby, Heroku and Beer.

If you’d like to join the meetup in São Paulo, drop Pedro a note for the location details. Ansioso para vê-lo!

Why NoSQL Matters

“NoSQL” is a label which encompasses a wave of innovation now happening in the database space. The NoSQL movement has sparked a whirlwind of discussion, debate, and excitement in the technical community. Why is NoSQL generating so much buzz? What does it mean for you, the application developer? And what place does NoSQL have for apps running on the Heroku platform?

SQL (the language) and SQL RDBMS implementations (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc) …

Deployment stacks have been a huge success. With the latest version of Rails 3 requiring the Bamboo stack, we’re excited to make Bamboo the new default.

Effective immediately, all newly created apps will default to the bamboo stack with REE 1.8.7. You can still use the old aspen stack if you’d like by simply specifying `heroku create —stack aspen`. Existing apps stay on the stack they are on unless you explicitly migrate them.

A key …

Heroku now supports Rails 3 beta 4 with Ruby 1.8.7.

As Rails 3 matures and gets closer to production a number of pieces continue to change. The beta 4 update introduced two significant changes to be aware of:

• Require Ruby 1.8.7 > p249 or Ruby 1.9.2.
• Require Bundler 0.9.26.

Heroku has updated to Ruby REE 1.8.7-2010.02 which incorporates the necessary patches for Rails 3. We will add support for 1.9.2 when the community releases the …

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 …