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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: Photography
New Horizons Flyby of Pluto
When I was in school, Pluto was just a name of a far-away planet. We knew it’s orbit, mass and estimated diameter, but those were all indirectly calculated. The only images we had of Pluto looked like points of light. … Continue reading
The Hubble Deep Field May Prove That We Aren’t in a Simulation
Hubble Deep Field: dark sky is not empty even at this magnification (angle) and exposure (time), and galaxies are statistically distributed the same I happened across the Hubble Deep Field image again today, and a thought occurred to me. Some … Continue reading
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
OSCON 2012, Portland
Back to Portland for the 2012 O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) @oscon. The main themes this year were: looks like 2012 is the year that the Redhat GlusterFS distributed filesystem really takes off. Gluster is the first DFS ready for … Continue reading
Recent Nova Documentaries on WW2
Nova recently aired 2 good WW2 documentaries. Bombing Hitler’s Dams A British scientist rediscovers the physics and engineering behind the bouncing bombs used to destroy 2 German dams in the Ruhr Valley, and tests his theories on a 1/4 scale … Continue reading
