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Welcome to the first issue of this Angular.JS and web-dev newsletter. The newsletter is going to be a weekly collection of programming related findings that I find interesting throughout the week.

As the first issue, and I knew a few of you have been on the list for more than a week. The links for today’s issue are going to be from my findings in the last couple of weeks.

The different sections and links are going to evolve in the coming issues. Maybe add more of this, less of that, merge/split things, etc. — You can tell me how you want the newsletter changed on twitter or by email.

Angular.JS — New & Hot

Angular.JS Changelog (New 1.2.x & 1.3.x Releases)

Did you know that there are 2 release candidates of Angular.JS 1.3 out already? RC0 and RC1. RC2 is very close to the corner too, and the last 1.2.x version is 1.2.24. Use the page to stay updated about Angular.JS version progress.

Adventures in Angular, The Podcast

A nice podcast just for Angular.JS stuff (co-hosted by John Papa). There’re 7 episodes out already with topics like the history of Angular.JS (1st episode, I bet more details than you know), how to learn it and teach it, running meetups for Angular.JS, build processes, etc. Each episode includes some special resources picks as well.

Angular.JS — Resources

Video: AngularJS Fundamentals In 60-ish Minutes

Oldie but a goodie! This is the main resource I give to everyone who wants to learn Angular.JS. Once you get all the main conecepts

Common Problems & Solutions When Using Select Elements With Angular.JS

If there is one small part of Angular.JS that’s completely missed up, it’s the select element directive and its corresponding ng-options . It’s very hard to do simple things like have an option pre-selected without having it replaced by an empty option you didn’t add in the 1st place. That’s why this post, which shows all the select problems solved with some non-well-known tricks is the most read post in my blog today (you can skip the video at the end).

AngularAgility

I’m not sure how popular this library is, but it can be quite useful if you are using forms a lot in Angular.JS. It generates form fields for you using Bootstrap styles, but you don’t have to use it this way. I only use one part of this library which is generating validation error labels, and showing them smartly. By smartly I mean showing error only when the field has been edited or the user tried to submit the form, etc. That’s where I find it very useful.

ng-book, The Book

From the same guy behind ng-newsletter articles, this seems to be the best Angular.JS currently available.



JavaScript — ECMAScript 6

Video: Douglas Crockford – The Better Parts

This video from April Douglas talks about ES 6 and other changes happening to JavaScript, and to his own opinions, like this alternative to object.create() that he now uses. It’s also such a fun video like other videos from Douglas usually are.

ECMAScript 6 modules: the final syntax

The final ECMAScript 6 modules syntax was agreed on in July this year. This post gives an overview of how modules work in ECMAScript 6. Pro Tip: Explore the blog when you are there, it’s a great JS source.

Collecting and Iterating, the ES6 Way

The post talks about collections in ES 6, but it also has several links to learning other areas of the language, and also to es6-shim.

JavaScript — Libraries

Flot Charts (JavaScript Library)

In my current project I needed to display a bar chart where bars show in green or gray based on some criteria. I needed IE 8 support so something like d3 wasn’t an option. Then I found Flot, and although the API was quite very verbose, I was able to achieve what I wanted. While I can’t share the project code, here’s the prototype I created to test it.

Node.JS

Learning Gulp

A nice visual tutorial for learning Gulp task runner.

ASP.NET

ASP.NET vNext Community Standup

ASP.NET team is working on a complete rewrite of the framework in the next version. It should be able to work on Mac in production, and have autocomplete in Sublime Text, use Grunt or Gulp to combine and minify CSS / JS. Scott Hanselman started a weekly Google Hangout with the team to show what they work on that week.

What is the significance of ASP.NET vNext? (Quick 6 points)

Whether you are someone who really likes or really dislikes ASP.NET as it is now, in this post I have a quick summary of why the new complete rewrite in next version should be really good.

Introducing Gulp, Grunt, Bower, and npm support for Visual Studio

Microsoft decided to stop making fights that make no sense. Most clinet-side libraries are on Bower package manager not Microsoft’s Nuget Package Manager, so, they decided to support that in Visual Studio, first as an extension to VS 2013, and then soon as part of the product in VS vNext. They also support Grunt / Gulp (so, they didn’t try to declare a winner). I talk about these plans in my blog as well.

Git

GitHub Flow Like a Pro with these 13 Git Aliases

A nice blog post by Phil Haack from Github on using git aliases when following Github flow.

Git pretty

A flow chart for showing which git commands you might want to use in different cases.

UI / Design

Grunt Email Design Workflow

A Grunt workflow for designing and testing HTML email templates with SCSS. I haven’t played with this myself (so no, it’s not used to produce this email), but it’s kinda promising. I already use SCSS and use PreMailer.NET to inline CSS in emails sent from the applications I develop.

UI Gradients

A nice tool for gradient hero content inspirations for any landing page you might be creating.

Design Tips for Developers

Since we devs ending up mocking with designs a lot of the time, these are targeted resources for helping with that.

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