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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
- RedisConf 2020 Takeaway, May 12-14, 2020 Virtual (Free)
- AWS Summit Online May 13, 2020
- Percona, May 18–20, 2020, AT&T Convention Center, Austin
- Jenkins/Cloudbees, Sept. 21-24, 2020, TBA, Vegas
- PagerDuty Summit, Sept. 21-23, 2020, SF
- postgresopen.org (TBD)
- API World 2020, Oct. 27–29, 2020, San Jose Convention Center
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Avweb Articles on Aircraft Electrical Systems
Avweb has two very good articles on small aircraft electrical systems: When It All Goes Dark (Note that Swissair had unsafe entertainment system wiring and bundles were wrapped in metalized mylar (ie. flammable plastic), which aren’t small aircraft problems) Batteries … Continue reading →
Truckee-Tahoe Circling Approach Accidents
I have to admit, doing a circling approach at night in the mountains in snow and fog – with a passenger – is pretty risky: Freedom To Choose Only 4 years earlier, a Learjet crew tried the same thing and … Continue reading →
Garmin GPSMap 96C GPS Updates
Originally, the Garmin 96C shipped with a 2006 GPS database. The Feb. 2011 obstacle database size increased enough to require a new version of the software, 3.0.0. The 96C software update steps are: connect USB cable (regular to mini) from … Continue reading →
FAA Certificate and Rating Price Chart for 2014
I just passed my FAA ATP Part 121 written exam, and the escalating price of training came up in conversation when I was at the airport. FAA Cert./Rating Min. (Part 141/61) 2000 2014 How to Save Money Sport 20 hours … Continue reading →
Jeppesen Tech Star Flight Computer Manual
I haven’t seen any Jeppesen Tech Star Flight Computer manuals online, so here’s a feature summary. Overview uses 4xAAA batteries, thus prone to corrosion comes with plastic film to protect keyboard (leave it on) math calculations are instant, but menu … Continue reading →