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Iron.io Enhances Web and Mobile Capabilities with CORS Support
Iron.io adds CORS support Iron.io is pleased to announce the introduction of support for Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS). This capability means that developers have even easier access to the Iron.io platform from desktop and mobile browsers and other client devices. CORS is an HTML5 feature that supports cross-domain communication across web clients and…
Read MoreIron.io Launches Custom Runtime Environments for IronWorker
Overview Iron.io announced today the introduction of custom language environments within its IronWorker processing platform. Instead of a single standard environment, developers can now define runtime environments and write workers for specific language versions. IronWorker already supports all common languages including PHP, Ruby, Python, .NET, Node.js, Java, Go, and binary files, but this release adds…
Read MoreIron.io Launches on Pivotal Cloud Foundry Platform
Iron.io is proud to announce that IronMQ and IronWorker are now available as add-on services on Pivotal’s web-based Platform-as-a-Service (PAAS) which is available at https://run.pivotal.io and runs the open source Cloud Foundry platform. Run.pivotal provides app developers with a powerful option to rapidly deploy and scale new applications. The recent launch of Pivotal CF – a…
Read MoreIron.io Announces Alerts for IronMQ
Alerts can now be set on queues to trigger actions. Iron.io is pleased to announce the release of alerts for IronMQ. IronMQ is a cloud-based message queuing service that offers high scale and high availability. It provides pull and push queues – meaning processes can get messages (pull) and events or the queue can…
Read MoreHow One User Automated a Research Study with IronWorker and Twilio (a repost from Usability Panda)
Katarzyna Stawarz, a PhD student at University College London, wrote a really nice blog post on using Twilio and IronWorker to communicate via SMS. She was conducting a study that tested a method of habit formation research and needed a way to send out reminders to participants at specific times during the day, every day,…
Read MoreIron.io Drinkup – Booze Queues’ Edition
In keeping with all the love going around today, wanted to let you know about an Iron.io Drinkup we’re hosting with our friends at Keen IO next week (Wed, Feb 19th). It’ll be at our offices at Heavybit. In keeping with the theme, here are details in the form of some JSON. Drink up. …
Read MoreGo Sessions: Teaching Go to Experienced Devs (via GoSF)
As a result of the growing interest in Go, Travis Reeder and other GoSF organizers have decided to create a program within GoSF to teach Go programming concepts and fundamentals. We’re calling them Go Sessions and they consist of evening guided pair-programming sessions. Iron.io is one of main organizers of the GoSF meetup and we’ve…
Read MoreIron.io Launches IronMQ in Europe
IronMQ is now available in Europe Iron.io is happy to announce today the launch of IronMQ services in Europe. IronMQ EU provides the full functionality of IronMQ as is currently available in the US and is available to the public in general release. IronMQ offers two endpoints in Europe – AWS EU-West and Rackspace-LON.…
Read MoreIron.io Drinkup in NYC
In a couple short weeks, Iron.io will be hosting an Iron.io Drinkup and would love to see developers in NYC there! Who: One of our dev evangelists and YOU! What: Beer and…more beer! Why: To asynchronously chat and hangout …and drink beers Where: TBD – but definitely in the city When: Thurs, Jan 30th –…
Read MoreIronHack Deep Dive: Iron TicTacToe
This past week we crowned a winner for our Iron Holiday Hack. It was a one week virtual hackathon where participants built apps that were useful, beautiful, informative, or just plain cool. David Jones built an awesome little project called Iron TicTacToe that hit the mark on the goals of the challenge. The application was…
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