Microsoft passes 9 million Windows Phone transactions daily, promises carrier payouts to developers after 30 days

Microsoft today announced the Windows Phone platform has surpassed 9 million transactions, which encompasses both app and in-app purchases, per day. At the same time, the company revealed a policy change for developers: it will no longer wait to receive app sales proceeds from carriers before issuing payment to developers

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Design Patterns for JavaScript Applications

Now a days, developers are writing increasingly larger and more complex JavaScript applications using the latest frameworks and libraries.Patterns provide a clear approach to writing structured, scalable and maintainable code, concepts which all are extremely important when developing large JavaScript applications.

Here are the following patterns:

Module pattern
Revealing Module pattern
Singleton pattern
Observer pattern
Mediator pattern
Prototype pattern
Facade pattern

For each of the patterns Carl describes the purpose and main use cases together with advantages and disadvantages.

Announcing the Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate

New announce about Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013, .NET Framework 4.5.1 and Team Foundation Server 2013!  The release is available for download now on the Visual Studio product website and is a "go-live" release.  Starting today, developers can also download Windows 8.1 RTM via their MSDN and TechNet subscriptions.

New features announced by Somasegar:

Improved XAML Editor
Cloud Business App
Improvement in C++
TypeScript
CodeLens
Work Item Charting

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