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
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.
