The Morning Brew

Software

• WinJS 3.0 is Here: Cross-browser| Cross-platform – Dr. Doris Chen highlights the first open source release of WinJS
• Windows now offers Developer lifetime developer accounts and benefits – Lee Stott highlights a change in the charging model for Windows Dev Center accounts, now featuring a one off fee and no renewal fees, along with the Dev Center Benefits program which offers app developers a number of supporting services to promote and market their applications.
• Application Insights tools in Visual Studio 2013 Summer Update – Dimah Zaidalkilani shares a look at the Application Insights Tools 2.1 which is included in the Visual Studio 2013 Summer Update
• Azure Websites Scale Better – Data Center Knowledge highlight new scalability options for Microsoft Azure Websites, allowing them to scale beyond 10 instances, and also to integrate with the Azure Virtual Networks

Information

• Spot the defect: randomness – Eric Lippert plays ‘Spot the Defect’ with a look at a seemingly reasonable implementation of Random.Next
• Container Usage Guidelines – Jimmy Bogard shares guidance and best practices for the use of Inversion of Control Containers in the style of the ‘Framework Design Guidelines’
• Over 100 ASP.NET Web API samples – Filip W. discusses the samples from his WebAPI book, and how they are all freely available on Gitub, providing a great resource
• Declarative Physics with PhysicsJS and AngularJS – K.Scott Allen takes a look at combining two successful JavaScript Libraries, and finding that the combination is actually really powerful.
• AngularJS Snippets for Sublime, Visual Studio and WebStorm – John Papa shares some AngularJS Snippets for a range of different IDEs making it ever easier to work with this framework.

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