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- Last Updated: March 28, 2024
- Michelle Greer
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 and implementation.
The overall winner will receive a $500 Amazon gift card and a $500 Heroku credit. Two runners up will…
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- Last Updated: October 25, 2011
- Michelle Greer
So our good friends at GitHub put together the First Annual Dodgeball Invitational with the intention of pummeling various Bay Area tech companies into submission. Heroku has never shied away from a challenge, especially when there is a giant Octocat trophy at stake. The Dodging Samurai emerged victorious despite facing a pool of 21 teams and one crotchety old man wielding a wrench.
Through brute force, covert strategies and pink tutus , the Herokai were able to persevere through two teams from both GitHub and Engine Yard , a solid team…
- News
- Last Updated: May 13, 2011
- Ben Scofield
Baltimore, Here We Come!
Next week is RailsConf in Baltimore, and Heroku is coming out in force. There will be about a dozen of us attending sessions, manning our booth, and chatting with Rubyists, so definitely keep an eye out for us!
To make it a bit easier, here’s a quick summary of when and where we’ll be:
Monday, May 16th
At 6pm, Ben Scofield will be part of the second annual Ignite RailsConf. He’s giving a five-minute talk on How To Be Awesome (From a Counter-Example) .
Tuesday, May 17th
The Expo Hall opens up…
- News
- Last Updated: December 21, 2010
- Ben Scofield
We’re very excited about the growth of the add-on ecosystem following the launch of the provider program — with dozens of add-ons in various stages of release, our developers have access to a wide variety of functionality for their applications. One of the most recent additions to the generally-available add-on catalog is IndexTank, a real-time search-as-a-service with some great features.
In order to celebrate their release, IndexTank is sponsoring a contest over the holiday season. From last week until January 6th, they’re inviting developers to build the best app they can using the IndexTank add-on. You can see…
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