Maarten Balliauw is a cloud and web development expert specializing in .NET, C#, Microsoft Azure, and application performance. Frequent international speaker and Head of Customer Success at Duende Software.
433 articles from this blog
A presentation at Linuxwochen Austria covering how to set up and run PHP for development on the Windows operating system.
Slides from a 2010 VISUG session on building rich web applications using ASP.NET MVC and jQuery as an alternative to Silverlight.
Recap of TechDays 2010 Portugal sessions on running WordPress on Windows Azure and integrating PHP with Silverlight, including presentation links.
A technical guide on creating and mounting Windows Azure Drives for PHP or Ruby applications using a custom .NET HTTP module.
A technical overview of running PHP applications on Windows Azure, covering scaling, storage, and SQL Azure with sample code.
A guide and demo session on migrating an existing ASP.NET application to the Windows Azure cloud platform, covering hosting, storage, and SQL Azure.
A developer builds an FTP server bridge to access and manage Windows Azure Blob Storage, allowing file operations via standard FTP clients.
Explains the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) using a shed-building analogy, focusing on its core concepts: export, import, and compose.
A presentation on developing and deploying PHP applications on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform, including slides and sample code.
Introduces Sharpy, an ASP.NET MVC view engine using Smarty syntax for cleaner, designer-friendly templates with extensibility via MEF.
A technical guide on using Windows Azure Drive (X-Drive) to mount a page blob as an NTFS drive for cloud applications.
A PHP developer shares insights from porting WordPress to Microsoft Azure, covering the PHP SDK, SQL Azure, and challenges faced.
Explains how to implement localized, translated routes in ASP.NET MVC and WebForms for better SEO and user experience.
Announcing the first public release of PHPMEF, a PHP port of the .NET Managed Extensibility Framework for application composition.
A tutorial on creating an externally accessible TCP endpoint for a Worker Role in Microsoft Azure, including code examples.
A guide to implementing custom field ordering in ASP.NET MVC 2 templated helpers using a custom OrderAttribute and metadata provider.
A developer's 2009 year-end review, highlighting top ASP.NET MVC and performance posts, open-source projects, and tech presentations.
A critique of automatic website localization that ignores user language preferences, using examples from Twitter, Facebook, and Windows Mobile Marketplace.
A session recap on cloud computing basics and the Windows Azure Services Platform, covering components and architectural challenges.
A developer recounts attending Microsoft's invite-only Web Development Summit 2009, focusing on dialogue between Microsoft and the PHP community.
