The Key of Chaos

Adventure for Wrath & Glory Location: Planet Ishraq, Corvus Sub-sector Isharq is a small hiveworld polluted from a millennia of heavy industry. Four primary hive cities once existed planetside. Now only two remain due to their hermetic seals protecting them from the wastes outside. Background Lord Astric, the Planetary Governor, has received creditable intelligence of a

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What I Use 2018

The updated 2018 list of my gadgets, computers and software I use on a daily basis. Computer: MacBook Pro I continue to use my Mid 2014 MacBook Pro 13″ with an attached 23″ monitor. It’s fast, has crazy long battery life, and works perfectly for doing coding or layout on my book. Smartphone: Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Best

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MongoDB Mac Cheat Sheet

Install MongoDB with brew. To start mongodb: brew services start mongodb To stop mongodb if it’s already running: brew services stop mongodb Tools Robomongo / Robo 3T MongoDB Compass Commands MongoDB Statistics – To get stats about MongoDB server, type the command db.stats() Currently selected database, use the command db Databases list, use the command

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MySQL Best Practices

Database operations often tend to be the main bottleneck for most web applications today. As programmers need to do our part by structuring tables properly, writing optimized queries and better code. Table Names By convention, the “snake case” in lowercase (no PascalCase – we’re not using Microsoft SQL Server here!), plural name of the class will

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