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Interested in talking with Heroku at Rubyconf?

We’ve secured a two room suite at the Rubyconf event hotel for the Thursday night of the conference. A number of Heroku’s team members including James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, Morten Bagai, Oren Teich, Todd Matthews, Pedro Belo and Blake Mizerany will be hanging out, talking shop and looking to connect with folks interested in learning more about Heroku.

Rubyconf has an exceptional lineup this year and Thursday is sure to rock it with talks scheduled …

Tech: Sending email with Gmail

These days, it seems like almost all apps need to send email. And everyone has a gmail account. So why not have your app send email through Gmail? It’s fairly easy with just a few steps.

Heroku currently runs Ruby 1.8.6. This means you need to provide your own SMTP TLS library. Luckily, Adam has made that super easy with a quick little Rails plugin. Simply install the library, set a few config variables…

Add-ons Launch: Expanding Application Functionality

Heroku has focused since day one on making the end-to-end application experience as easy as possible. From our git focused workflow to the automated management of deployed applications, we’ve worked hard to give developers the flexibility to build amazing apps. Today we’re excited to announce a major extension of this flexibility with Add-ons.

For those who just want to see it in action, here’s a 3 minute overview:

Add-ons

Add-ons are a way to …

Heroku Directions

It’s great to be a part of Heroku and to get the welcome from James and team as well as from the various customers, partners, and developers I’ve spoken with over the past few weeks. Heroku, the Ruby community at large, and the “cloud” market in general are growing and evolving quickly. As you can tell, we have a lot of exciting applications being deployed on our platform and are constantly working to improve and …

Heroku Casts: Maintenance Mode

Today we’re launching an exciting new feature – maintenance mode.

We strive to make your deployment and management experience as seamless as possible, for both the developers and the end users. Part of any management task is performing routine maintenance tasks, from database migrations to more complex site upgrades. When you’re in the midst of doing these maintenance tasks, wouldn’t it be great to show your users a nice maintenance page, instead of a broken …

Announcing Huge Growth and New CEO

Big things are happening at Heroku, so we felt it was time for an overall update. I’m happy to say that not only has the platform doubled in size over the last 12 months to well over 35,000 live apps, but usage has become more serious and far more intense. Tons of business-critical apps are now live on Heroku, and rely on us for dependable, secure, scalable service, 24/7.

We are seeing some really cool …

Heroku Casts: Setting Up Custom Domains

NOTE: This documentation is out-of-date and no longer supported. It will not work with the current version of the Heroku platform. For the latest information about setting up custom domains on Heroku please use this article from the Heroku Dev Center.

Today is a twofer on the screencast front.

Setting up custom domains & DNS is one of those necessary evils that no one likes, and is way more confusing than it should be. Adding …

Gemcutter’s Adventure on Heroku

Hi there, I’m the creator of a new RubyGem hosting site, Gemcutter. I also happen to be one of the newest hires at Heroku, but I promise, I decided the project was going to be hosted on Heroku long before starting to work here. Heroku’s been kind enough to pitch in getting the site deployed and ready for the whole Ruby community to enjoy.

There’s nothing more fitting than for the next generation of RubyGem …

We’re Hiring a Heroku Evangelist and a Ruby Engineer!

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 …

Übermind: A Community App For iPhone Photography

We periodically like to highlight some of the great applications people are building on Heroku. This week, a new web site and iPhone app for shutterbugs launched, and it’s getting great press and feedback around the web.

Chase Jarvis, a professional photographer, has been singing the praises of the iPhone camera as creative outlet. As he points out, the best camera is the one you have with you. To back that claim up, …

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