Posted on February 16, 2012, 8:32 am, by Maarten Balliauw, under
ASP.NET,
Azure,
c#,
General,
ICT,
jQuery,
MVC,
NuGet,
Presentations.
It was the last session on the last day of TechDays 2012 so I was expecting almost nobody to show up. Still, a packed room came to have a look at how to make the web realtime using SignalR. Thanks for joining and for being very cooperative during the d…
Posted on September 6, 2011, 11:55 am, by Maarten Balliauw, under
AppFabric,
ASP.NET,
Azure,
c#,
General,
ICT,
MVC,
Scalability,
Webfarm.
Recently one of the Tweeps following me started fooling around and hit one of my sweet spots: Windows Azure. Basically, he mocked me for using Windows Azure for MyGet, a website with enough users but not enough to justify the “scalability” …
Posted on July 13, 2011, 7:33 am, by Maarten Balliauw, under
ASP.NET,
Azure,
c#,
General,
ICT,
MVC,
Scalability,
Webfarm.
One of the questions I often get around Windows Azure is: “Is Windows Azure interesting for me?”. It’s a tough one, because most of the time when someone asks that question they currently already have a server somewhere that hosts 100 websites. I…
Posted on July 7, 2011, 8:39 am, by Maarten Balliauw, under
AppFabric,
Azure,
c#,
General,
ICT,
MVC,
Scalability,
Software,
SQL Azure,
Webfarm.
After the Windows Azure AppFabric team announced the availability of Windows Azure AppFabric Applications (preview), I signed up for early access immediately and got in. After installing the tools and creating a namespace through the portal, I decided …
Posted on June 29, 2011, 7:10 am, by Maarten Balliauw, under
ASP.NET,
Azure,
c#,
General,
ICT,
MVC,
Projects,
Software.
One of the first features we had envisioned for MyGet and which seemed increasingly popular was the ability to provide other users a means of managing packages on another user’s feed. As of today, we’re proud to announce the following new features…
Posted on June 1, 2011, 8:06 am, by Maarten Balliauw, under
ASP.NET,
Azure,
c#,
General,
ICT,
MEF,
MVC,
Projects,
Software.
One of the work items we had opened for MyGet was the ability to push packages to a private feed from the command line. Only a few hours after our initial launch, David Fowler provided us with example code on how to implement NuGet command line pushes …
Posted on May 31, 2011, 7:49 am, by Maarten Balliauw, under
ASP.NET,
Azure,
c#,
General,
ICT,
MEF,
MVC,
Projects,
Software.
Ever since NuGet came out, I’ve been thinking about leveraging it in a corporate environment. I’ve seen two NuGet server implementations appear on the Internet: the official NuGet gallery server and Phil Haack’s NuGet.Server package. A…
The (awesome) UK developer community is holding another all day event with Steve Sanderson and me in London on June 6th. The event is free to attend, and the venue will be in Central London (at the ODEON Covent Garden). The website for the …
Posted on April 9, 2011, 9:13 am, by Maarten Balliauw, under
ASP.NET,
Azure,
c#,
Events,
General,
ICT,
Internet,
MEF,
MVC,
Personal,
Presentations,
Scalability.
I’m proud to announce that we (RealDolmen) have released the official Belgium TechDays 2011 Windows Phone 7 app! The official Belgium TechDays 2011 gives you the ability to browse current & upcoming sessions, as well as provide LIVE feedback to t…
Posted on January 6, 2010, 7:33 am, by Maarten Balliauw, under
ASP.NET,
Azure,
c#,
General,
ICT,
Internet,
MVC,
Personal,
PHP,
Presentations,
SQL Azure.
Everybody knows the Microsoft MIX event, right? The one in Las Vegas? The one with all the fancy web-related stuff? Rings a bell? Ok, great. In the beginning of December 2009, Microsoft did an open call for speakers, which I answered with some session proposals. Who doesn’t want to go to Vegas, right?
The open call proposals have been processed (150+ sessions submitted, wow!) and a voting has started. Yes, you hear me coming: please go ahead and vote for a session I submitted. Voting ends January 15th, 2010.
Since I could not decide which color of the voting banner matched best with my blog’s theme, I decided to put them all three online:

Thanks in advance!
Maarten
PS: There’s also Elijah Manor, Justin Etheredge, K. Scott Allen, and many others who submitted good looking sessions.