Selecting something that has been created (or updated or deleted or …) between two dates is something very common I guess. So why should this be any different when you use MongoDB instead of a relational database.

And with Doctrine ODM it’s actually quite easy.

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DateTime · Doctrine · MongoDB · Symfony2

Every wanted to try out some small CSS stuff? Some HTML5? Some javascript even? Did you end up writing a small test.html somewhere on your computer and fired it up in a browser and then started switching between your editor and the browser back and forth?

Well it can be easier than that!

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CSS · html5 · Javascript · jsfiddle

I greatly enjoy working with Open Source Software and I enjoy it even more if it’s hosted on GitHub as sometimes things are missing for you and you can simply add them and do a pull request to the maintainers.

This is my simple workflow to do this.

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Git · GitHub · Open Source

Just a very short post today as a follow-up to a previous post in which I noticed that plussing already affects your search results.

It can get pretty annoying to see search results that are always influenced by your own social graph.

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Google Plus · Google+ · SEO

Just spent about an hour yesterday to figure out how to use unique indexes in a MongoDB document. It involves three simple steps.

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Doctrine2 · MongoDB · ODM · Symfony2

Finally I found the time to play around with MongoDB. But before the results comes the installation which in my case happens on a Gentoo box and wasn’t as straightforward as it could’ve been.

The problem was that I wasn’t able to find all required information in one place.

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Gentoo · Installation · MongoDB · NoSQL · PHP

Last Friday the folks from Twitter  announced the release of their new front-end toolkit. It sounds like it’s yet another framework just like boilerplate, blueprintcss, 960 and all the others.

Now how does it differentiate?

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Bootstrap · CSS · grid · HTML · html5 · html5boilerplate · LESS · Twitter

Last week I made my first steps with CoffeeScript. Soon after I could see that I reduced the amount of code by about 30 percent and got it a little more readable.

But am I no longer able to separate my code into multiple files now?

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Assetic · CoffeeScript · Javascript · Symfony2

I recently had a chance to join Forrst.com a community for developers and designer. Now you might say yet another niche community nobody needs and I thought exactly the same at first.

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Community · forrst · social media

After playing around with Sass and compass for an optimized CSS experience and some first results I now want to focus on easing Javascript development and CoffeeScript seems to be all the rage today.

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Assetic · CoffeeScript · Javascript · JQuery · Symfony2