This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Ulysses and the Golden Fleece (also known as Hi-Res Adventure #4) is a graphic adventure gam...
This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. For a lot of us 80’s kids, King’s Quest is where it all began. The colours were vibrant, the...
This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Mystery House is an adventure game released by On-Line Systems in 1980. It was designed, wri...
2021-06-01: Note that you can actually generate the games list directly from the scummvm binary by running scummvm --list-all-games. Oops … A long time ago I reached out to the ScummVM leaders...
MongoDB has always output log entries as plaintext. Starting in MongoDB 4.4, mongod / mongos instances now output all log messages in structured JSON format. This includes log output sent to the...
With PR#2982 - ENGINES: Sanitarium engine being recently merged into ScummVM I wanted to take some time to chronicle the original development efforts which began in 2009. At the time I was looking...
During a recent diagnostic analysis exercise I needed to identify if there was additional “work” being done based on a single option being changed. As Ruby offers numerous productivity tools for de...
Ever since I started this blog in 2012, I’ve been using Octopress to generate the pages and push to generated content to GitHub Pages for hosting. Octopress is a set of scripts and helpers built on...
The N + 1 queries problem is a common issue Rails applications face whereby iterating an array of models and accessing an association results in a sub-optimal pattern of recurring queries. To addr...
A MongoDB replica set is a group of mongod processes that maintain the same data set. The PRIMARY node receives all write operations and The SECONDARY nodes replicate the PRIMARY’s oplog and apply ...
<SHAMELESS_PLUG> My previous article about initial sync progress monitoring got some attention, and as I’m a Technical Services Engineer at MongoDB, I got to provide direct feedback during t...
As of MongoDB 6.0, Change Streams Support Pre- and Post-Image Retrieval, DDL operations, and more! Warning - Not for Production Use (in MongoDB 4.4) MongoDB’s source code is available (t...
MongoDB Stitch is a great way to build apps quickly with your data that’s already managed by MongoDB Atlas. Though these services empower you to focus on development without having to worry about i...
A common question when it comes to MongoDB and the (default) storage engine (WiredTiger) is “Why is it after I removed a bunch of documents my free space didn’t increase”? The WiredTiger storage e...
Sometimes our replica set members fall off the oplog and the node needs to be resynced. When this happens, an Initial Sync is required, which does the following: Clones all databases except the...
Full Time Diagnostic Data Capture (FTDC) was introduced in MongoDB 3.2 (via SERVER-19585), to incrementally collect the results of certain diagnostic commands to assist MongoDB support with trouble...
I recently found myself troubleshooting another MongoDB startup issue due to potential corruption within a WiredTiger file. As I have previously covered this topic (see “Recovering a WiredTiger col...
A challenge that I’ve had in the past while working with my data in MongoDB has been how to incorporate date math into my aggregations. db.foo.insertMany([ { lastUpdated: new Date(new Date().setDa...
The goal of this post is to provide a first hand account of what it means to be a Technical Services Engineer at MongoDB, as well as what the journey getting to this point has looked like for me. ...
As of August 13th, I am no longer a System Architect at DAC Group. I have a public post on LinkedIn that got some good traction, but to summarize it was time to move on. I’ve been a software engin...