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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.
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Monthly Archives: May 2008
Fun with Mapping in Perl
I’ve been having fun doing geolocation programming recently to plot log data using both Image::WorldMap and KML, used in several mapping products including Google Maps and Earth, and Microsoft Virtual Earth. Users love to play with maps of their data, … Continue reading
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