Maarten Balliauw {blog}

Most IT administrators will install some sort of virus scanner on your precious servers.

Short version: Install-Package ProNuget or http://amzn.to/pronuget It’s been a while since I wrote my first book.

Cool!

As promised, here are the slide decks for the two sessions delivered at TechDays Finland last week.

My blog already has quite the number of blog posts around MyGet, our NuGet-as-a-Service solution which my colleague Xavier and I are running.

It was the last session on the last day of TechDays 2012 so I was expecting almost nobody to show up.

Except for having a bad, bad experience using EasyJet on the way towards Milan, UGIALT.NET was a blast!

So you have an API.

The Channel 9 folks seem to have released the first beta of their Visual Studio Achievements project.

Not this question, but a similar one, has been asked by one of our customers.

It’s almost the end of 2011.

Last week, I’ve discussed Techniques for real-time client-server communication on the web (SignalR to the rescue).

When building web applications, you often face the fact that HTTP, the foundation of the web, is a request/response protocol.

It”’s been a while since I had to repave my laptop.

Ever since NuGet 1.2, there is a great way for NuGet package authors to let their users debug into the package’s binaries.

When scaling out an application to multiple servers, often a form of load balancing or reverse proxying is used to provide external users access to a web server.

After three conferences in two weeks with a lot of “airport time”, which typically converts into “let’s code!”

A few months ago, my colleague Xavier Decoster and I introduced MyGet as a tool where you can create your own, private NuGet feeds.

When looking at how people like to deploy their applications to a cloud environment, a large faction seems to prefer being able to use their source control system as a source for their production deployment.

Earlier today, a colleague of mine asked for advice on how he could create a “dynamic” view.

Recently one of the Tweeps following me started fooling around and hit one of my sweet spots: Windows Azure.

Over the past few months, I’ve been doing technical reviewing for a great Windows Azure book: the Windows Azure Development Cookbook published by Packt.

A few months ago, the .NET world was surprised with a magnificent tool called “Glimpse”.

Only a few months after the Windows Azure SDK for PHP 3.0.0, Microsoft and RealDolmen are proud to present you the next version of the most complete SDK for Windows Azure out there (yes, that is a rant against the .NET SDK!)

Yesterday, a funny discussion was going on at the NuGet Discussion Forum on CodePlex.

One of the questions I often get around Windows Azure is: “Is Windows Azure interesting for me?”.

It’s always fun to dive into frameworks: often you’ll find little hidden gems that can be of great use in your own projects.

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.

Woohoo!

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.

Yes, a long title, but also something I was not able to find too easily using Google.

To start the blog post: AWESOME!

For DeveloperFusion, I wrote an article on Windows Azure queues.

One of the work items we had opened for MyGet was the ability to push packages to a private feed from the command line.

It was great speaking at NDC2011!

Ever since NuGet came out, I’ve been thinking about leveraging it in a corporate environment.

With the fresh release of the Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0, it’s time to have a look at the future.

It looks like I’m really cr… ehm… releasing way too much over the past few days, but yes, here’s another one: I just posted MvcSiteMapProvider 3.1.0 RC both on CodePlex and NuGet.

Microsoft and RealDolmen are very proud to announce the availability of the Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0 on CodePlex!

As you can see, a new .NET Framework version just came out.

For a current project, I’m using Glimpse to inspect what’s going on behind the ASP.NET covers.

For a demo I am working on, I’m creating an OData feed.

For our RealDolmen blog platform, where we use Wordpress as the engine running multiple external and internal blogs (yes, that’s an internal SaaS we have there!)

With the downtime of Amazon EC2 this week, it seems a lot of websites “in the cloud” are down at the moment.

Microsoft and RealDolmen are very proud to announce the availability of the Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0.0 BETA on CodePlex.

As promised, here are the slides and demo code for my talk “Fun with ASP.NET MVC 3, MEF and NuGet” I presented at MIX in Las Vegas.

I’m proud to announce that we (RealDolmen) have released the official Belgium TechDays 2011 Windows Phone 7 app!

Those of you who are deploying PHP applications to Windows Azure, are probably using the Windows Azure tooling for Eclipse or the fantastic command-line tools available.

One of the key ideas behind cloud computing is the concept of scaling.Talking to customers and cloud enthusiasts, many people seem to be unaware about the fact that there is great opportunity in scaling, even for small applications.

One of the key ideas behind cloud computing is the concept of scaling.Talking to customers and cloud enthusiasts, many people seem to be unaware about the fact that there is great opportunity in scaling, even for small applications.