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Hi, I'm James Briggs, an Internet computer programmer/DBA in Silicon Valley. I've been programming for 20 years for companies like eBay, Cisco, Yahoo!, Apple, Amazon and startups.In my spare time I do Open Source programming and like flying airplanes, karate and studying Asian languages.
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Silicon Valley Codecamp 2011
Silicon Valley Codecamp 2011 was held this weekend at Foothill College near San Jose. There were 209 sessions and 3,414 registered attendees. I did not attend, but have seen some of the talks at other conferences in the past year. … Continue reading
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OSCON 2011, Portland
Once again, the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) was held in Portland, Oregon. It was held in parallel at the Oregon Convention Center with the O’Reilly OSdata and OSjava Conferences at the beginning of the week, and then later a … Continue reading
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DataStax Apache Cassandra Training in SF
I went to the DataStax training for Apache Cassandra today at the Hilton San Francisco Financial District Hotel. Ben Coverston, Director of Operations at DataStax, did a great job presenting some very technical material. Topics included data modeling, client programs, … Continue reading
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Cassandra SF 2011, San Francisco
I went to the Cassandra SF 2011 conference today, at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center. It was hosted by Datastax.com, where many of the Cassandra developers work. Here’s an overview of some of the talks I attended. Keynote Jonathan … Continue reading
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O’Reilly Velocity Conference Web Performance and Operations Conference 2011, Santa Clara
I was too busy to make it to the Velocity Conference this year from June 14-16, but here’s some talk links. YouTube: O’Reilly Velocity 2011 Playlist YouTube: Velocity 2011 Search Results YouTube: O’Reilly Velocity 2010 Playlist Overclocking SSL at Google … Continue reading
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