Daily Reading - Friday, June 28 2013

Announcing the General Availability of Windows Azure Mobile Services, Web Sites and continued Service innovation

Designing the Visual Studio 2013 User Experience
Icons get more color, now it's easier to look at.

HTML Editing Features in Visual Studio 2013 Preview
Brand new HTML Editor for Razor files (.cshtml, .vbhtml) improve smart indent and format, automactic brace completion and type-through, intellisense item grouping

Overview and Recommendations for Distributed File Systems
An overview of DFS technologies: NFS, CIFS, OwFS, HDFS ...

Paul Graham: Some VCs Push For Large Rounds, Even When Startups Don't Need Them

Venture capitalists are getting smaller stakes in startups and that trend will increasingly continue. Venture investors are used to taking a 20% stake in Series A fundings. But that number is arbitrary and will inevitably go down further.

Today, VCs often push for larger first round financings even when they know the company doesn’t need it. Why? To make up for the “opportunity cost of taking a board seat,” Graham says.

Valuation vs Ownership

21 Months In: How to Manage a Remote Team

The Startup Sector That’s Quietly Booming

7 Months with TypeScript

TypeScript has been a joy to work with over the past 7 months. Having had experience with types/interfaces in ActionScript/ES4, I took to TypeScript very rapidly as it supported the structure I needed, yet maintained the elegant flexibility of JavaScript. In many ways I know our choice in using the compiler really moved our project forward in both delivery date and in code quality. I cannot say I have ever been a Microsoft fan but TypeScript has ‘softened’ me, it is easily one of the best web technologies to arrive in the past 3 years. I am looking forward to working on more projects with it and evolving with the language/compiler ongoing.