After getting to know all of AppFog's top features, it is now time to learn about all the people and places that you should follow in order to stay up-to-date with any news or updates.
The official site of AppFog is http://www.appfog.com from where you can get all the latest AppFog platform information as well as their pricing plans. AppFog has its own official blog on which it shares awesome posts as well as important announcements, so it is a great place to learn about the latest news, contests, and announcements. You can find the official blog at http://blog.appfog.com/.
AppFog provides a channel for developers to send features and vote on others. These ideas and votes allow AppFog to find out what people want implemented as well as prioritize their roadmaps. You can browse the site at http://feedback.appfog.com to participate; my feature request is for Tomcat 7+ servlet 3 and maintenance mode.
To view the current or previous status updates on the AppFog infrastructure, you can go to http://status.appfog.com. This is where you can view if the servers are running as well as any news on errors or news about maintenance and downtime. If you do face any issues, you can always contact the support team by e-mail: <[email protected]>, or tweet their help Twitter account: @AppFogHelp.
Documentation is one of the more important resources a PaaS can provide. AppFog has excellent documentation support, including information about languages, services, customizations, add-ons, pricing, and billing; you can view the docs at https://docs.appfog.com/. AppFog also provides its roadmap, so developers can learn about what's in the pipeline as well as which features are in progress. You can view the roadmap at https://docs.appfog.com/roadmap.
From the previous section of this book, you have learned how to create jump-start applications in AppFog. These applications are open source and are available on GitHub at https://github.com/appfog. You can star/fork those jump-start applications to get the latest changes, or you can fork their jump-start application as your application's base code to quickly develop your new custom application.
AppFog also has a Google group that provides another means for people to stay up-to-date and ask questions. You can join its Google group at the https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/appfog-users group to receive updates as well as view the occasional announcements.
The AppFog platform is based on VMWare's open PaaS project, CloudFoundry, so it can be a good upstream to follow to see the latest updates that will usually trickle down into AppFog. You can follow its blog closely at http://blog.cloudfoundry.com/. While http://www.cloudfoundry.com will be the commercial public PaaS from VMWare, it maintains a website for the open source project that is available at http://cloudfoundry.org, and its blog can be found at http://blog.cloudfoundry.org.
AppFog maintains several different Twitter accounts for different purposes. You can follow its main account @appfog at https://twitter.com/appfog. Another account maintained by AppFog is the AppFog Status account. This account is mainly used to announce the AppFog platform system status, for example, system back to normal announcement. You can follow @AppFogStatus at https://twitter.com/AppFogStatus. Want help on AppFog? Follow @AppFogHelp for support and customer services at https://twitter.com/AppFogHelp to ask questions; it is one of the most efficient channels for getting help from AppFog; at the same time, other @AppFogHelp followers will help you out as well.
You can also follow the CloudFoundry project on Twitter @cloudfoundry or online at https://twitter.com/cloudfoundry. You can get up-to-date information from CloudFoundry and see what other folks are doing with the open source CloudFoundry project.
Want to know more about AppFog's founder? You can follow Lucas Carlson @cardmagic at https://twitter.com/cardmagic now. Lucas occasionally writes blog posts about PaaS; follow him if you are interested in that as well.
As you can see, there are lots of options when it comes to resources such as documentations, as well as methods of getting in touch. It is very easy to get help with any problem you may have. You can even contact the founder/CEO Lucas on Twitter @cardmagic to let him know what you think.