brandie tarvin

Shadowrun Fifth Edition has officially been out for over 1/2 a year, so few would be surprised that Catalyst Game Labs will release new adventures, source books, and rule books...

Writing Prompt Wednesdays welcomes you to the most dreaded time of the year. You’d never know it given the chipper music, bright lights, and festive happenings, but a monster lurks...

I haven’t posted a SQL Saturday post in a while because I’ve had a lot going on, not the least of which is working extra weekend hours. Also, Steve Jones...

So it's Turkey Day (Thanksgiving holiday) here in the States and I'm "lounging" at Starbucks while babysitting my workplace's month end processes and trying to write at the same time....

Welcome back to Shadowrun Sundays! Playing games is fun. So is writing for them. I’m of the mind that if you want to write for RPGs, or games in general,...

So I’m basking the laurels of solving a performance issue, transforming a 2 day+ ETL process into a 15 minute process, when the next Big Thing comes down the pipes...

CNN calls John D. Sutter’s “Change the List” article an opinion piece. It reads more like an indictment of the current U.S. economic system. Opinion or not, “The Most Unequal...

This morning I just got news that an acquaintance died of liver cancer. I didn’t know him as well as I wanted to, so I’m surprised at how hard this...

Today I want to talk about my job, the day job. As a Jack-of-All-Trades DBA, I am responsible for backups, security, production releases, data fixes, architecture, schema approvals, development (both...

A few weeks ago, I announced a Shadowrun contest for winning one of two PDF copies of the Shadowrun Fifth Edition roleplaying game. And today, I am announcing the winners....