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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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Humorous NoSQL Videos
NoSQL Better Than MySQL? Episode 1 – MongoDB Is Web Scale Hitler’s Hadoop and NoSQL Downfall Parody O’Reilly MySQL CE 2010: Brian Aker, “A Guide to No-SQL”
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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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Some ZFS News
Phoronix has a really well-written article on ZFS, including news on a company planning to release a CDDL-licensed linux kernel module. ZFS is the holy grail of filesystems. Many Database Administrators have switched from Linux to Solaris because ZFS has … Continue reading
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O’Reilly Open Source Conference 2010, Portland
Once again, the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) was held in Portland, Oregon. It was a good conference, and we had beautiful weather all week long. Executive Summary The themes promoted by the conference organizers were Cloud Computing, NoSQL, Emerging … Continue reading
OSCON 2009 – San Jose
For the first time in a decade, the O’Reilly Perl and Open Source Conference (OSCON) was held San Jose again for 2009. (I have heard that the City of San Jose Business Development office is very, very accommodating towards conferences … Continue reading
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