Accessing ServiceConfiguration in FastCGI (PHP) web role
While working on a sample PHP application hosted on Windows Azure, I found that it is nearly impossible to retrieve information from the Windows Azure Servic...
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ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 released!
Today, Phil Haack did a blog post on the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1! Get it while it’s fresh :-) An updated roadmap is also available on CodePl...
ReMIX Belgium session on ASP.NET MVC
Just learned I’ll be doing a session on ASP.NET MVC at ReMIX Belgium. ReMix brings the best of MIX09 in Las Vegas to Belgium: it bring us internationa...
Query the cloud with PHP (PHPLinq and Windows Azure)
I’m pleased to announce PHPLinq currently supports basic querying of Windows Azure Table Storage. PHPLinq is a class library for PHP, based on the ide...
Authenticating users with RPXNow (in ASP.NET MVC)
Don’t you get sick of having to register at website X, at website Y, at website Z, …? It is really not fun to maintain all these accounts, chan...
PHP SDK for Windows Azure - Milestone 2 release
I’m proud to announce our second milestone for the PHP SDK for Windows Azure project that Microsoft and RealDolmen started back in May. Next to our re...
I’m an MVP ASP.NET!
Yesterday evening, I received the following e-mail: Dear Maarten Balliauw, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP ...
How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 7: Deploying to the cloud
“Knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker had managed all there is to building an application to interact with the great god of social networking, Twitte...
How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 6: The back-end
“Now that the digital villagers could enter their messages in the application, another need arose: knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker would have to...
How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 5: the front-end
“After having found a god-like guardian for his application, Knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker found out that his application still had no functio...