Happy Friday, everyone!  It’s been a week of craziness.  Microsoft and Google, working together??  AngularJS 2.0 built on TypeScript??  These statements sound too crazy to be true, but yet, here we are!

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AngularJS

The big news of the week: yes, AngularJS 2.0 uses TypeScriptAtScript IS TypeScript now!  I’m actually quite pleased and excited about this announcement!

Display time in a more user-friendly way with AngularJS

Building AngularJS apps today using ES6

nzAnimate – A clean approach to using Animate.css in your AngularJS apps

Sometimes you need to disable Angular’s animation service (like when using fa-spin from Font Awesome!)

Finally, a decent datepicker for AngularJS!

 

CSS

Transformicons look great!  Check them out!

Cool things you can do with Font Awesome

Animated Text Fills

More icons, built entirely with CSS

 

.NET

Here’s a great write-up dealing with timezones in .NET web apps 

Updates to the ASP.NET web stack 

Switch your MVC 5 app to use Gulp and Bower in VS 2013

Routing based on domain in ASP.NET 5

I agree, .NET packaging is a hot mess

ASP.NET 5 – a novel by Scott Gu

A more-concise write-up on ASP.NET 5

 

JavaScript

ES6 generator functions: now I can abuse ‘yield’ in JavaScript AND C#! 😀

Natural Language Processing.  In JavaScript.  #WHYYYYYYY?

Value Converters in Aurelia

DateDropper – a different take on the classic datepicker widget

 

Misc

And more icons, not built with CSS

Free user pics!  They look a little *too* happy to represent the average user though…

I actually agree with Rob Conery: sprocs are not inherently evil.