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.
440 articles from this blog
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.
Introducing PHPMEF, a Managed Extensibility Framework for PHP inspired by .NET's MEF, enabling declarative application extensibility.
Explains how to handle multiple submit buttons in an ASP.NET MVC form using an ActionNameSelectorAttribute, without requiring JavaScript.
A review of the book 'Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development,' covering its MVC focus, application design, and testing practices.
A guide on migrating an existing ASP.NET application to the Windows Azure cloud platform, including demo code and deployment steps.
Highlights from Microsoft PDC 2009 Day 2 keynote, covering Silverlight 4 Beta, IE9 previews, and WCF RIA Services.
Highlights from Microsoft PDC 2009 keynote, focusing on the 'three-screen' cloud vision, Azure, and new developer tools releases.
A tutorial on localizing ASP.NET MVC 2 DataAnnotations validation error messages using resource files instead of hardcoded strings.
Announcing the official release of Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse, a plugin for PHP developers to build, debug, and deploy applications to Azure.
Announcing upcoming tech sessions on Azure, PHP, and ASP.NET, including cloud migration and PHP-Microsoft integration.
A fun web tool that generates Bing search links for easily answerable questions, inspired by LetMeGoogleThatForYou.
Explores using ASP.NET MVC 2's 'Serialized Model State' feature for handling optimistic concurrency in web forms.
A technical overview of new features in the ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 release, focusing on the Futures assembly, client-side validation, and REST SDK.
A 2009 presentation on building a Twitter clone in 60 minutes using ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1, covering security and routing.
