The Heroku Java User Group Tour continues next week: Tuesday December 6 at the Central Ohio JUG Thursday December 8 at the Orange County JUG The sessions will teach you how to deploy Java, Play! and Scala apps on the cloud with Heroku. Hope to see you there!
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Heroku Java User Group Tour: Columbus and Orange County
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Heroku Preso from Devoxx 2011
As expected… Devoxx 2011 rocked! Such a fun conference with top notch sessions and people. I presented a session on how to deploy Java, Play Framework, and Scala apps on Heroku. Matt Raible did a great (and very thorough) write-up on my session. Thanks Matt! Here are my slides: There was also some hot news [...]
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Using Apache Tomcat on Heroku
One great thing about Heroku is the freedom to use any APIs and any application server. On Heroku you bring your application server with you. The easiest way to do this is by specifying your app server as a dependency of your application. This allows for maximum control and avoids the pain associated with developer [...]
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Akka, Heroku, sbt and BlueEyes at the SF Scala UG
Next Monday at the San Francisco Scala User Group I will be co-presenting about Akka, Heroku, sbt and BlueEyes with Mike Slinn – a long time friend and mentor. In the presentation we will be talking about a building client/server apps with HTML5 on the client and Scala & JSON services on the server. We [...]
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Heroku at Devoxx 2011
Devoxx is one of my favorite conferences of the year so I’m lucky to be presenting there again this year. This Thursday at noon I’ll be presenting about Heroku and how to deploy Java, Play Framework, and Scala apps on the cloud. Hopefully see you there!
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Intro to Java & Play! on Heroku in Mountain View
On November 10, 2011 Sandeep Bhanot and I will be presenting an Introduction to Java & Play Framework on Heroku at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. Space is almost gone, so register now! Hope to see you there.
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Java, Play! & Scala on Heroku at the Dallas JUG
On Wednesday November 9, 2011 I’ll be presenting “Running Java, Play! and Scala Apps on the Cloud” at the Dallas Java User Group. If you are in the Dallas area then I hope to see you there!
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Video: Play Framework Scala Apps on the Cloud
Last week I posted the steps to getting started with Play Framework and Scala. Here is a video that walks through those steps in real-time: Let me know if you have any questions.
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Setting Up Play Framework Apps in IntelliJ IDEA
JetBrains just announced that they have posted a new EAP release of IntelliJ IDEA that supports Play Framework apps! Here is a quick video I recorded that shows how to get IntelliJ setup with a Play app: Thanks JetBrains! This is awesome stuff!
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