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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.
This blog talks about events, places and things in my life. Upcoming Events 2020
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- postgresopen.org (TBD)
- API World 2020, Oct. 27–29, 2020, San Jose Convention Center
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Daily Archives: April 16, 2013
Programming with the eBay API and Perl
I wrote a web application to search and filter daily eBay computer listings using the eBay API, with Perl, XML, CSS, JavaScript and HTML. eBay has done a good job with Getting Started info and creating and managing credentials on … Continue reading
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