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Let's Adventure! A Journey into Adventure Games (1980-1999)

When I was growing up in the 80’s my favourite games to play were adventure games. I’ve always found myself going back to this genre, and as I grew up and moved into software development the ScummV...

Optimizing MongoDB Compound Indexes - The "Equality - Sort - Range" (ESR) Rule

UPDATE DOCS-11790 has finally been implemented and as a result the MongoDB public documentation now contains a tutorial for The ESR (Equality, Sort, Range) Rule! Working in Technical Servic...

Recovering a WiredTiger collection from a corrupt MongoDB installation

April, 1 2019: I’ve received a LOT of feedback on this article since it was published. I would like to point out that although the methods described here may still work, MongoDB introduced a --r...

Companions of Xanth (Legend Entertainment) - 1993

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Companions of Xanth is based on Piers Anthony’s Xanth novels and loosely follows the plot of...

DreamWeb (Creative Reality) - 1994

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. DreamWeb is an MS-DOS and Amiga point-and-click cyberpunk top-down adventure game released i...

Ace Ventura (7th Level) - 1996

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Ace Ventura: The CD-Rom Game is an adventure game released for the PC based on the animated ...

Murder on the Mississippi (Activision) - 1986

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Murder on the Mississippi is a 1986 detective adventure game developed and published by Acti...

Round Trips to Authenticate a MongoDB Client Connection

When MongoDB Drivers establish a connection with a MongoDB cluster a number of network round trips are performed. This can result in increased latency when measuring the time to response of an oper...

Identifying Ruby Developers' Favourite IDEs for Ruby/Rails in 2023

Cross posted to DEV As a Product Manager, data is everything when it comes to making decisions. One of my responsibilities as a PM for Developer Interfaces is to understand how our developer c...

Mission Asteroid (On-Line Systems) - 1980

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Mission Asteroid is a graphic adventure game for the Apple II written by Ken and Roberta Wil...