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
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.
A session recap on integrating Microsoft Silverlight rich front-ends with existing PHP applications, including demo code.
Podcast episode discussing the new PHP SDK for Windows Azure, designed to help PHP developers utilize Azure cloud services.
A technical guide to implementing custom domain and subdomain routing in ASP.NET MVC, addressing multilingual and multi-tenant scenarios.
A developer's experience at a Microsoft Document Interoperability Initiative workshop, covering OpenXML validation, document accessibility, and SDK discussions.
A screencast introducing unit testing with mock objects, TDD, and the Moq framework for creating maintainable tests.
Microsoft releases an open-source PHP SDK for Windows Azure, enabling PHP developers to use Azure cloud storage and services.
A presentation on Mocking techniques for software testing, delivered at the Visual Studio User Group Belgium, with slides and demo code.
Advanced best practices for ASP.NET MVC development, covering model binding security, avoiding reinventing the wheel, and performance tips.
A review of the book 'Learning Ext JS', covering its effectiveness for quickly learning the JavaScript framework for building rich web applications.
Announcement of PHPPowerPoint 0.1.0, a new PHP library for programmatically generating PowerPoint (PPTX) presentations.
Presenter shares slide deck and experience from an online MSDN session on ASP.NET MVC, including technical setup details.
A tutorial on using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to create a plugin-based, extensible ASP.NET MVC web application.
Explains the AsyncController in ASP.NET MVC Futures for handling asynchronous requests to improve web server scalability.
