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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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Category Archives: Perl
Redis and CentOS 7
Redis is a feature-packed cache that’s easy to install and work with. Here’s some notes on installing and using Redis with CentOS 7. Install available redis package from your available yum repos: # yum install redis # systemctl enable redis … Continue reading
Perl, DBI and MySQL utf8mb4 Character Set Support
MySQL’s modern UTF-8 encoding is named utf8mb4 (4 bytes), not utf8 (3 bytes.) For new applications, especially web, you should start with utf8mb4. For existing applications, you need to decide if an upgrade is worthwhile, and test extensively before a … Continue reading
Lecture: Silicon Valley Perl Meetup – REST API Server Programming With Perl
I gave a talk at the Silicon Valley Perl Meetup on “REST API Server Programming With Perl.” Here are the slides: Part 1: “The REST API Landscape in 2017” Part 2: “REST API Server Programming with Perl, Swagger and the … Continue reading
Configuring IPv6 on Linux CentOS
Configuring IPv6 on your linux server is this easy if your ISP is IPv6-ready (if not, see Tunnelbroker links below) on CentOS 5 and 7: vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-my_interface file, note the settings that start with “IPV6” and update them: DNS2=2001:4860:4860::8888 – … Continue reading
sv.pm.org: Moose (OO Perl)
Tonite at Silicon Valley Perl Mongers, Venugopal gave a talk on “Moose (OO Perl).” It was a dark and stormy nite, but a dozen members still arrived. Venugopal did a great job explaining how Moose works, with admirable patience. Moose … Continue reading
