Case-insensitive queries on MongoDB

Case-insensitive queries on MongoDB

Short version: you can’t. Long version: well…. you can’t 😀 Or at least you can’t NOW, based on what is stated here : https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-90 . If you really need case-insensitive queries one option is to create another field with a lowercase representation of the text, put an index on it and run...

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Best portal 2014!

I have just been told that the portal Razorfish Healthware that I developed for the Agency won the Web Marketing Association’s WebAward 2014 as “Best Portal Website of 2014” 😀 Here’s the link to the news: http://www.webaward.org/winner.asp?eid=30057 Yay!

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Data pagination with WebAPI and AngularJS

Data pagination with WebAPI and AngularJS

UPDATE: wonder how to do the same using React and NodeJS? Read here! One of the first issues I faced while studying/working with AngularJS was how to do pagination with data received from the backend. Assuming that all the real paging is done server-side, I “just” needed a way to...

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jQuery unobtrusive validation and custom date formats

jQuery unobtrusive validation and custom date formats

Another quick reminder for my sloppy memory: in case you want to use a custom date format and you need validation (of course, why wouldn’t you?), sometimes may happen that the format you’re using is not recognised during the client validation phase. In one of my side projects for example...

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