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Heroku Tour Dates: Creating with Heroku and Ruby

In our ongoing efforts to spread the Heroku word worldwide, our North American tour continues with a bunch of new venues coming up.

Each time we meet with people, we’re blown away with the new applications people are creating on Heroku. For example, last month FlightCaster launched an amazing app for predicting flight delays using Heroku, Clojure, S3, Hadoop and some general amazing tech. We’d love to hear from you on what you’re creating, …

BizConf Bound

Heroku has a special place in our heart for consultants and web development firms. They’re some of our best supporters and users. That’s why were excited to be heading out to BizConf this Thursday and Friday.

From the BizConf website:

It’s simple: energetic, enthused folks who want to learn more about how to actually do business today. This conference won’t consist of get-rich-quick talks or motivational speeches, but rather in-depth presentations, discussions and workshops on …

Heroku Sass

No, we’re not talking back. Instead, we’re excited to announce that you can now use Sass on Heroku.

We’re big believers in elegance here, and Sass is a way to bring elegance to your CSS and page layout. Due to our read-only filesystem Sass hasn’t worked well on Heroku. Thanks to the efforts of one of our awesome engineers, there’s now a beta plugin available that enables you to use Sass & Heroku frictionlessly.

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Bringing Heroku to the East Coast

With Morten out on the European tour, we didn’t want those here in the US to feel left out. Last week we attended a great BBQ and roundtable with Seattle.rb. Starting next week, we’ll be heading out to the east coast, and want to meet more of you.

Blake Mizerany will be talking with local meetup groups all along the east coast about Heroku, Sinatra, and Ruby development. We’re excited to hear how …

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 …

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 …

Background Jobs with DJ on Heroku

Our goal for the Heroku platform has been to create a totally smooth and seamless experience for getting your Ruby web application online. Web apps revolve around one or more dynamic web processes: what Rubyists often call a mongrel, and what we call a dyno. When it comes to dynos, we think we’ve really nailed it, and nothing makes that more tangible than the ease of scaling your app with the dyno slider.

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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 …

Develop a Voice App With Twilio to 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 …

We Talk Scalability and Speed on RailsLab | Heroku

Railslab is a great site by our friends over at New Relic that contains a wealth of knowledge on Rails scaling and application performance.

A couple of weeks ago they asked Ryan and Adam to stop by for a discussion of the vision behind Heroku, and the philosophy that drives the design and buildout of our scalable, provisionless hosting platform.

The interview is now available for your viewing pleasure in three parts. In the …

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