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Tutorial: RabbitMQ + Node.js on AppFog
A few weeks back, we announced that we were introducing Redis and RabbitMQ support on AppFog. I was extremely excited about this and am looking forward to seeing what people do with these tools. I got...
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Managing multiple MySQL databases with the phpMyAdmin jumpstart on AppFog
Last week, I posted a tutorial on using AppFog’s phpMyAdmin jumpstart for easily managing MySQL databases in your browser. At the time, using this jumpstart was possible only by cloning a GitHub repo...
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AppFog now supports Node 0.8!
Questions we’ve gotten recently: “When is Node 0.8 support coming?” “Why don’t you have support for Node.js v0.8?” “I need Node 0.8 for my project to work on AppFog!!” Okay. We get it. You want Node...
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Deploying custom PHP apps on AppFog
We like jumpstarts on AppFog. We like enabling people to almost instantly deploy a basic “Hello world” app that can act as a placeholder for a future, more sophisticated app. We currently offer a...
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How to make WordPress absolutely blaze on AppFog (part 1)
WordPress and I have a weird history. I have several failed WordPress blogs in my personal history, extending back as far as 2004 (which is about the time when people stopped remembering that “blog” is...
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Exo IDE is now integrated with AppFog!
There’s probably nothing “wrong” with your current development environment. It likely consists of your preferred text editor, a browser, a version control server like GitHub, and perhaps a few other...
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Two reasons why PaaS is so much more than automation
Bruno Terkaly is a heck of an interesting and intelligent guy. I suggest you check out his many videos and writings. As a fellow developer evangelist, I look up to Bruno a lot. And like him, I’m...
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The AppFog Teams feature is now in public beta
Collaboration has always been an essential part of coding. While plenty of solid programmers operate lone wolf-style, coding has throughout history been primarily a collective venture–from the first...
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What the Obama IT team teaches us about polyglot programming
4Gb/s, 10k requests per second, 2,000 nodes, 3 datacenters, 180TB and 8.5 billion requests. Design, deploy, dismantle in 583 days to elect the President. #madops – Scott VanDenPlas, Obama for America...
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AngularJS: the beauty of concision
Some of you might remember a Backbone blogging engine I made a while back (here’s the code). It certainly wasn’t the most advanced use case for Backbone, but I think that it did a decent job of...
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