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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 28, 2013
Cloud and Dedicated Hosting VPNs
Generally most businesses want a VPN from their office campus to their external hosting provider (“the Cloud”.) The benefits of a VPN are: single network gateway for manageability can bind Cloud server daemons and services to private addresses for additional … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cloud, Linux, Tech
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Canon 50D Gets Firmware Upgrade for RAW Video
I don’t shoot videos with my DSLR cameras, but it’s nice anyway that Magic Lantern has created reversible firmware to add RAW video to the Canon 50D, since I own one: RAW Video DSLR Comparison: Canon 50D vs. Canon 5D … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Tech, Toys
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