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
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.
Announcement of the Azure User Group Belgium (AZUG.BE), a community for sharing knowledge on Microsoft Azure development and architecture.
A tutorial on implementing application-wide action filters in ASP.NET MVC to ensure consistent logging and behavior across all controllers.
A revised approach to integrating ASP.NET MVC with the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to enable pluggable controllers and views, addressing a specific Server Error.
A tutorial on using Test-Driven Development (TDD) workflow in Visual Studio 2010 for ASP.NET MVC controller development.
Guide to storing ASP.NET MVC views in Windows Azure Blob Storage using a custom VirtualPathProvider for easier updates.
