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Hi, I'm James Briggs, an Internet computer programmer/DBA/SRE in Silicon Valley. I've been engineering for over 20 years for companies like eBay, Netflix, Yahoo!, Apple, Amazon and startups.
I use TuCows/Hover for registering domain names.
I am available for MySQL/Postgres DBA/SRE/Security work in Silicon Valley or remote. Click here to contact me.
I am a MariaDB/MySQL code contributor and Perl CPAN author. Check out my github. My most recent project is cassandra-top.
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 2013
Safeway Personalization Fail
Hmm. I wouldn’t quite call that personalized. And when you use the self-checkout machine, the receipt says, “Checked out by Self.” 🙂 Factoid: the product code for Safeway Refreshe Diet Cola is 23307. It is not in their POS computers … Continue reading
Fully Automated Nagios (FAN) Review
I used the Open Source Fully Automated Nagios (FAN) monitoring system on a project for 10 months with good results. FAN is a CentOS ISO “monitoring distro” that includes Nagios, Centreon, MySQL, MRTG, NagVis, NDOUtils and NRPE. You can choose … Continue reading
WordPress Update Steps on CentOS6
These are the steps I used to update to WordPress 3.5: take screenshot and save HTML front page of old site enable wordpress* updates in /etc/yum.conf backup /usr/share/wordpress, /etc/wordpress/wp-config.conf, /etc/httpd/conf.d/wordpress.conf, database wordpress.* stop database replication deactivate plugins GRANT ALL ON … Continue reading
Russian Meteor Blast was Largest in 100 Years
Meteors have featured prominently in the news media in the past few months. But the Feb. 15 Russian Meteor really caught the world’s attention, as it was captured on numerous dashboard cams and sent over 1,000 people to hospital with … Continue reading
Happy Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s Day! wikipedia: Valentine’s Day