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- 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
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- 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.