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Wizard and the Princess (On-Line Systems) - 1980

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Wizard and the Princess is a graphic adventure game written for the Apple II and published i...

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Hugo’s House of Horrors (Gray Design Associates) - 1990

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Hugo’s House of Horrors is a parser-based adventure game designed by independent software de...

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Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (Sierra On-Line) - 1987

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is the first installment in Sierra’s Le...

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Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch (Tsunami Games) - 1992

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch is a 1993 video game based on Larry Niven’s Ringworld no...

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Grim Fandango (LucasArts) - 1998

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Grim Fandango is a 1998 adventure game directed by Tim Schafer and developed and published b...

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TableCheck: Empowering Restaurants with Best-in-Class Booking Tools Powered by MongoDB

Cross posted from the MongoDB Developer Center TableCheck is the world’s premiere booking and guest platform. Headquartered in Tokyo, they empower restaurants with tools to elevate their guest...

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Efficiently Identifying Duplicates using MongoDB

Efficiently Identifying Duplicates using MongoDB One question that comes up time and again on Stack Overflow or the MongoDB Developer Forums is “how can I find duplicate X and get a list of Y that...

Just Finished - Earthbound

When I was really getting into 16-bit JRPGs in the early to mid 90’s, Earthbound was actually one of the first games I ended up owning. Strangely enough what I remember most about it was the over...

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MongoDB ORMs, ODMs, and Libraries

Cross posted from the MongoDB Developer Center Though developers have always been capable of manually writing complex queries to interact with a database, this approach can be tedious and erro...

From Engineering to Product Management

I’ve spent my entire professional career as an engineering IC either churning out code, working on architectural challenges or helping to lead engineering teams (while still churning out code). Whe...

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Bug Hunting with the MongoDB Haskell Community

MongoDB currently maintains 10 programming language Drivers in-house, including a Ruby driver for which I’m presently the Product Manager. Additionally we also have a library of community maintaine...

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Solving a mongorestore failure due to 'Values in v:2 index key pattern cannot be of type object.'

Starting with MongoDB 4.4, the MongoDB Database Tools are now released separately from the MongoDB Server and use their own versioning, with an initial version of 100.0.0. Previously, these tools w...

Performance Profiling a Mongoid Issue Using AppProfiler

In MONGOID-4889 the claim was made that assignment of a large number of embedded documents to an instance of a model will take increasingly longer as the size of the list of documents to embed grow...

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Why Use MongoDB with Ruby

Cross posted from the MongoDB Developer Center Before discovering Ruby and Ruby on Rails I was a .NET developer. At that time I’d make ad-hoc changes to my development database, export my tabl...

My Blog is FINALLY PROFITABLE!

I signed up for Google AdSense in January of 2015 in hopes of subsidizing some of the time I spent writing with ad-based revenue. Without doing any research I quickly formed some baseless expectati...

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Hello Product Management

Past My MongoDB Career Journey began almost 4 years ago, and I’ve enjoyed my time as a Technical Services Engineer immensely. During my tenure as part of the organization I had the opportunity to ...

Just Finished - Terranigma

This has been a long time coming. I took a run at Terranigma in 2015 and failed miserably, but I was such a huge fan of the other Quintet titles for the SNES I just couldn’t leave this unfinished...

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MongoDB Driver Monitoring

One of the great things about MongoDB Drivers is that they are all built around a common set of specifications. Though these specifications exist to facilitate the development of new language drive...

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Blue Force (Tsunami Games) - 1993

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Since I just finished playing Police Quest 1 I figured I’ll stick with the “police work simu...

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Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (Sierra On-Line) - 1987

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel is an adventure game (and police simulation) pro...