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
Exploring the implementation of Excel formula parsing and calculation within PHPExcel using a ported JavaScript expression parser.
Author shares their experience passing the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Web-based Client Development exam to become a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist.
A developer shares a custom ASP.NET SendMailControl for sending templated emails, similar to built-in controls like PasswordRecovery.
Article on using PHP with Microsoft's OpenXML format to generate Excel 2007 spreadsheets, featuring the PHPExcel project.
Explains ASP.NET 2.0's Event Validation security feature, a common error it causes, and provides a recommended code fix.
A collection of useful links and tools for Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) development and administration.
A PHP developer shares a workaround for the file_exists() function failing on files within ZIP archives, using stream wrappers.
Explores using asynchronous programming in ASP.NET to build scalable applications, based on a session by Jeff Prosise.
A developer's recap of Day 2 at a tech conference in Ghent, covering sessions on C# evolution, Windows Workflow Foundation, and continuous integration.
A developer's recap of Day 1 at the Belgium Developer & IT Pro Days conference in Ghent, covering sessions on Visual Studio tools, ASP.NET threading, and OpenXML.
Guide to running Apache and IIS simultaneously on Windows XP by configuring them to listen on different IP addresses using the httpcfg utility.
Announcing the final 1.0.0 release of PHPExcel, a PHP library for writing and reading Excel 2007 files.
A guide to using a custom MyGeneration template for automatically generating Zend_Db_Table classes from a database in PHP's Zend Framework.
Introducing PHP for Microsoft AJAX Library, enabling PHP applications to use Microsoft's AJAX Library for creating web services.
Explains a PHP performance tweak: using array_flip() and isset() instead of in_array() for faster lookups in large arrays.
Developer provides a status update on his PHP library for generating Excel 2007 files, discussing its evolution from a test project.
Explores two main approaches for data binding business objects in .NET: O/R mapping tools and typed DataSets.
A developer shares a set of PHP classes for generating Excel 2007 (.xlsx) files, supporting basic data types and formulas.
Explains how to create custom multilingual routes in Zend Framework to map URLs like /gebruiker/bewerken to controller/action pairs.
Microsoft and Zend collaborate to improve PHP performance and support on Windows Server and IIS.
