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.
438 articles from this blog
Introducing SQL Azure Manager, a community tool for connecting to and managing SQL Azure databases, addressing usability issues with SQL Server Management Studio.
A review of the book 'Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0', covering its content on the MVC framework, advanced topics, and practical case studies.
Explains how to chain multiple IControllerFactory implementations in ASP.NET MVC to allow flexible controller creation.
An overview and example of using the REST for ASP.NET MVC SDK to easily expose Web APIs from ASP.NET MVC applications.
A review of the book 'ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development', evaluating its suitability for beginners versus experienced ASP.NET developers.
Explains how to use Shared Access Signatures with the PHP SDK for Windows Azure to securely grant granular access to blob storage resources.
A guide to creating a PHP extension for accessing Windows Azure ServiceConfiguration and logging from FastCGI web roles.
Announces ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 release, highlighting new features like templated helpers, areas, and DataAnnotations support.
Announcing a session at ReMIX Belgium on building a Twitter clone using ASP.NET MVC in 60 minutes, focusing on UX.
PHPLinq library now supports querying Windows Azure Table Storage, bringing LINQ-style queries to PHP for cloud data.
A tutorial on implementing user authentication in ASP.NET MVC using the RPXNow service, which supports multiple identity providers like Google and Facebook.
Announcing the second milestone release of the PHP SDK for Windows Azure, focusing on Table Storage support with examples.
Author announces being awarded the 2009 Microsoft MVP Award for ASP.NET, recognizing community contributions.
A technical guide on deploying a Twitter application to Microsoft Azure, covering cloud deployment and DNS configuration.
Part 6 of a series detailing the back-end architecture of TwitterMatic.net, focusing on Azure worker roles and multi-threaded tweet processing.
Part 5 of a series detailing the front-end development of TwitterMatic.net using ASP.NET MVC, jQuery UI, and time pickers.
Part 4 of a series on building TwitterMatic.net, focusing on implementing OAuth authentication with Twitter's API.
Part 3 of a series on building TwitterMatic.net, focusing on using Windows Azure Table and Queue storage for cloud data persistence.
A technical guide on setting up an ASP.NET MVC project within a Windows Azure Web Role for building a Twitter application.
A technical introduction to building TwitterMatic, a cloud-based tweet scheduling app using Windows Azure services like web/worker roles and table storage.
