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- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Mattt Thompson
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 things to install–especially for new developers–so we see Postgres.app as an important step in making the world’s best database more accessible to everyone. Postgres.app was created…
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- Last Updated: April 17, 2012
- Jon Mountjoy
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 get the latest on changes like these, visit the Heroku Changelog , or subscribe via feed or Twitter .
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- Last Updated: March 30, 2012
- Richard Schneeman
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.
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- Last Updated: March 15, 2012
- Jesper Joergensen
Editor's Note: The functionality described in this blog post has been replaced by Heroku Button.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 we're introducing template-based app creation for Java on Heroku. To try it out, go to www.heroku.com/java and click…
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- Last Updated: April 04, 2024
- Matthew Soldo
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 will be able to leverage the flexibility and agility of schema-less data stores in existing environments. Although hstore is a mature, stable solution,…
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- Last Updated: March 09, 2012
- Adam Wiggins
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 shiny new landing page. Ruby developers can continue to use gem install heroku, but developers in other languages (…
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