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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: July 2009
OSCON 2009 – San Jose
For the first time in a decade, the O’Reilly Perl and Open Source Conference (OSCON) was held San Jose again for 2009. (I have heard that the City of San Jose Business Development office is very, very accommodating towards conferences … Continue reading
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PHP Light-weight Web Application Requirements
A lot of web designers are using complete CMS systems like Drupal and Joomla as foundations for custom PHP/MySQL web apps that are not really CMS apps. The main disadvantage with doing that is that they are relatively large codebases, … Continue reading
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