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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 2009
Congrats on Yahoo Messenger Improvements
Congratulations to the Yahoo! Messenger programmers on the major improvements to the Windows and Blackberry client chat programs. The Windows messenger client Build 9.0.0.2152 no longer leaks handles, although it still uses about 3x the memory and handles (User and … Continue reading
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useful memcached patches and links
Various memcached links … Facebook memcached waffle: raise MEMCACHED_MAX_BUFFER to 16500 Memcached as a L2 Cache for Innodb – The Waffle Grid Project Perrin on memcached vs. local files or mmap Microsoft Velocity cache (memcached clone)
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