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
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.
Introduces Munin, a PHP-based web application firewall similar to mod_security, for securing websites on IIS and Apache.
Introducing Webservice Helper, a PHP class that automatically generates WSDL files for web services using PHPDoc and reflection.
A guide to running Zend Framework on IIS using a custom 404 error page for URL rewriting, avoiding the need for paid ISAPI filters.
A technical guide explaining how to run PHP on IIS 7 using FastCGI to solve thread-safety issues with ISAPI, including registry configuration steps.
Microsoft renames 'Atlas' to 'Microsoft AJAX Library' and 'ASP.NET AJAX Extensions', detailing its roadmap and Visual Studio integration.
A developer shares their experience using a SAX parser in PHP to efficiently parse HTML and extract specific tags and attributes for a web project.
Announcement and initial review of Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1, focusing on new UI features and improved web standards support.
Google Analytics is now available to all users, offering in-depth website statistics, goal tracking, and specialized reporting views.
Explains the difference between encode() and encodeURIComponent() in JavaScript for correctly handling special characters like Swedish å, ä, ö in URI parameters.
Goggles is a browser-based flight simulator game that uses Google Maps satellite imagery as its interactive 3D world.
Phalanger, an open-source tool, compiles PHP to .NET's MSIL, enabling PHP development in Visual Studio and integration with .NET libraries.
Introducing PRAjax, a home-brew PHP Ajax framework that simplifies asynchronous communication between server-side PHP and client-side JavaScript.
A developer's first blog post about creating custom blog software using PHP and a personal framework, with plans for future features.
