Month: February 2018

SteemNova : Building My Galaxy

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Colonizing Planets to Increase Resources   It has been two weeks since I started playing SteemNova, an oGame based space strategy game using the 2Moon system. Welcome Back to Text Base Gaming Last week, in my Slow Times on SteemNova article, I mentioned that I had reached the point where each new level of building or research took a lot more Metal, Crystal and Deuterium. One of the ways to increase your resources is to colonize planets. You do this by researching Expedition Technology, building a Colony Ship and then sending it to a blank spot in your galaxy. While the price of the Continue reading SteemNova : Building My Galaxy→

The Slow Times on SteemNova

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When the strategy game drags you on. It has been a week since I started playing SteemNova, a space strategy game using the OGame based Two Moons. Welcome Back to Text Base Gaming Since I started, I have created an Alliance with @gniksivart and @potplucker. Because I created it and the other guys didn’t care, I named it Logic Force. Which seems more like a policing group than a universe conquest team. Since all three of us have just started last week, we are still at the bottom half of the leader board. In fact, the only battles we’ve been in is that @gniksivart has been attacked Continue reading The Slow Times on SteemNova→

Getting the Correct Max Date

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After I added the dynamic search feature to my “To The Moon” 🚀 Coin Calculator, I noticed that the price of BitCoin (BTC) was not increasing. I knew that it was over USD$9,000 all day, but it was still showing a price just about USD$8,000. When I ran the query in the MySQL database, I noticed that it was pulling back the correct date, but not the correct price. QUERY FAIL!! So, it was off to figure out why my query wasn’t working. To start, I was using the MAX() function to retrieve the latest date added to the table. Continue reading Getting the Correct Max Date→

Dynamic Search with PHP, jQuery and AutoComplete

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After I created a Cron job using EasyCron to populate my cryptocurrency coin history tables, my next step was to create the capability to search through the 500 coins I had in the database.  The To The Moon! Coin Calculator displays the Top 50 coins by market capitalization rank by default. The search would narrow it down to one coin. I am hoping, that in the next phase, that when the user selects one coin they will get more information than the list of 50. Since I want to prevent errors in retrieving the one coin, the best method is Continue reading Dynamic Search with PHP, jQuery and AutoComplete→

Welcome Back to Text Base Gaming

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I’ve decided to start playing SteemNova, what have I done!! The other day, I stumbled on a post that somehow led me to @steemnova.@steemnova is a blog for information about a text-based space game called SteemNova, which is hosted at http://steemnova.intinte.org. The only real connection to Steem, at the moment, is the blogs and the name. They hope to have some deeper connections in the future, but right now anyone can sign up and play. Maybe in the future, they can create a SMT that goes along with the game to reward people on the leader board. Currently, they are doing rewards this Continue reading Welcome Back to Text Base Gaming→

Easy to Use EasyCron

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I created my first cron job using EasyCron and it was Easy. As part of the second phase of my To The Moon! Coin Calculator, I needed to populate my database with information on a scheduled basis. Since I am using a hosting service that doesn’t have a schedule jobs feature, I looked to a third party app to get it done. EasyCron allows for anyone to create simple cron jobs for free or as a paid service, if you want more functionality. For my needs, the free service works well. I only plan on running my cron job 3 Continue reading Easy to Use EasyCron→