-

Hi, I'm James Briggs, an Internet computer programmer/DBA in Silicon Valley. I've been programming for 20 years for companies like eBay, Cisco, Yahoo!, Apple, Amazon and startups.In my spare time I do Open Source programming and like flying airplanes, karate and studying Asian languages.
This blog talks about events, places and things in my life.


Bay Area Earthquakes
San Jose International Airport, CA
Last Updated on May 18 2012, 3:53 pm PDT
Weather by NOAA
Current Conditions: A Few Clouds
Temp: 73°F
Wind: NW at 15mph
Humidity: 40%
Dewpoint: 46.9°F
Categories
- Angry Birds (4)
- BSD (37)
- Business (189)
- Cassandra (6)
- Cloud (25)
- Conferences (53)
- Flight Simulators (4)
- Flying (86)
- Hadoop (7)
- i18n (56)
- Indonesia (39)
- Japanese (52)
- Karate (2)
- Linux (141)
- MySQL (106)
- Open Source (241)
- Oracle (31)
- OSCON (15)
- Perl (87)
- Personal (5)
- Photography (69)
- Psychology (37)
- Restaurant Reviews (23)
- Retro (1)
- San Jose Bay Area (3)
- Storage (69)
- Tablets (5)
- Tech (680)
- Toys (306)
- Travel (87)
- Uncategorized (2)
- User Groups (63)
Pages
Meta
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Review: Yahoo Go for Blackberry
I just installed Yahoo! Go mobile apps for Blackberry on my 8700g. It’s a slick control panel (carousel) with search, news (headlines, finance, celeb, sports, weather), City Guide, Flickr interesting photos and Yahoo! mobile maps. News is available in many … Continue reading
Posted in i18n, Tech, Toys
Leave a comment
MySQL Hacks
Links for cool things that people do with MySQL. Amazon Web Services Blog: MySQL Interface to Amazon S3 Mark Atwood’s S3 Blog Entries register.com: Inside Amazon’s web services: SLAs for us but not for you, says Amazon’s CTO
Posted in MySQL, Open Source, Tech, Toys
Leave a comment
SVLUG: Talk on Meldware Groupware
Aron Sogor, cofounder of BuniSoft, gave a talk at Silicon Valley Linux Users Group (SVLUG) tonite on the Meldware Linux Multi-Platform Groupware Package. He is the core developer of the Calendaring feature in Meldware. This is a suite of servers … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, MySQL, Open Source, Tech, User Groups
1 Comment