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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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Daily Archives: April 19, 2013
IMUG: Computer Vision and Behavior Driven Visual Automation in L10n and i18n QA
George Betak from Yahoo! gave an excellent talk on “Computer Vision and Behavior Driven Visual Automation in L10n and i18n QA” at IMUG tonite. This is the future of QA automation. George is an interesting fellow. Besides writing cutting edge … Continue reading
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