AngularJS + MVC : how to pass model from server to Angular controller

AngularJS + MVC : how to pass model from server to Angular controller

Here’s a quick tip on how to pass a complex model from server side to an AngularJS controller. The idea is to serialize the model to json (I am using the majestic Newtonsoft library for that), store it into a javascript variable and then create a provider with it on...

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Videum 2.0 is here!

Videum 2.0 is here!

After almost one year, yesterday we pushed to production the new version of Videum ! It’s a major milestone, this time we started the entire application from scratch, writing a brand new ad-hoc CMS and moving from MSSQL to MongoDB. The search engine instead is based entirely on Elasticsearch, with some minor...

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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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