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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: February 2009
Angela Hewitt Solo Piano Performance at SJSU
Angela Hewitt performed “Partita No. 56″ and “English Suite no. 6″ by J.S. Bach, and “Sonata in D Major, Opus 10, no. 3″ and “Sonata quasi una fantasia in C-sharp minor, Opus 27, no. 2″ by Beethoven on piano at … Continue reading
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Sun Grid Engine (SGE)
Sun Grid Engine (SGE) is a free and Open Source batch-queuing software system for scheduling and managing computer jobs on a cluster of computers. The jobs themselves can be single or parallel processing. I’ve had the opportunity to administer a … Continue reading
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IMUG: Emerging Localization Technologies: Crowdsourcing and Machine Translation
Anna Schlegel from Acclaro gave a talk on “Emerging Localization Technologies: Crowdsourcing and Machine Translation” at IMUG tonite. Anna Schlegel is currently Director, Localization at Acclaro and previously was Director of Globalization at VMware, VeriSign, and managed localization and web … Continue reading
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Interesting Event Since Unix Epoch
Keep an eye on your computer today for an interesting event in Unix time. Here are some useful Unix commands: $ date -d @1234567890 Fri Feb 13 15:31:30 PST 2009 $ watch -d -n 1 date +%s cnet.com: Time for … Continue reading
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Customizing Buildbot Forms
I’ve been using Buildbot for several months to do both immediate and nightly builds of hardware RTL and software projects in svn. Buildbot is fairly useful for what it is: a free, Open Source, standalone continuous integration (CI) tool that … Continue reading
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