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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. San Jose, San Jose International Airport, CA
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Daily Archives: May 16, 2013
IMUG: Building Scalable i18n and L10n tools for 300 Languages at Wikipedia
Alolita Sharma, Director of Engineering at Wikipedia, did a talk tonite at IMUG on “Building Scalable i18n and L10n tools for 300 Languages at Wikipedia”. She is driving the initiative for Wikipedia to build open source tools and technologies to … Continue reading
Posted in i18n, Open Source, Tech, User Groups
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Lion Air PK-LKS Accident Investigation Report April 2013
Accident investigators examine PK-LKS. Note the Lion Air logo has been painted over. From a recent article on the April PK-LKS 737-800 April accident in Bali: “The committee’s report issued safety recommendations to the airline in order to ensure pilots … Continue reading
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