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27th May 2008

Happy Birthday WordPress

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WORDPRESS ! 

On Tuesday, May 27th, WordPress turned 5 years old. Wordpress team is having a party in San Francisco. You can get the full details and RSVP on Upcoming.org or on Facebook.

And I was surprised to see a new Wordpress's screenshot on safari or firefox browser on MAC (probably.. the screenshot seemed so)

Thank you Wordpress team for such a nice opensource blogging platform ! Long Live Wordpress !

27th May 2008

Samsung develops 256GB solid state drive

Samsung is claiming the fastest SSD data transfer rates to date.CNET site ZDNet Korea reports that Samsung announced the development of a 2.5-inch, 256GB solid state drive (SSD) at the fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum in Taipei, Taiwan.

 

 

Normal notebook PCs come with solid state drives with capacity of 64GB.This drive has a sequential read speed of 200 megabytes per second and sequential write speed of 160MBps.

Special feature of these SSD is they don't have any mechanical moving parts which separates them from other drives which have mechanical failures and delays. 

But there was no mention of price anywhere mentioned !

[ photo credit - samsung ]

27th May 2008

Google’s Largest Developer Gathering in San Francisco

While going through Orkut apps, we happened to look at this event notification. Google is going to host Google's largest developer  event.As said on the site,Its a two day event which covers in depth on how to develop application with Google and Open technologies.Its at San Francisco on May 28-89.

Sessions consists of talks on OpenSocial, Google App Engine, Android, Google Maps API, Google Web Toolkit and more ..presented by Google's leading developers like David Glazer, Alex Martelli, Steve Souders, Dion Almaer, Mark Lucovsky, Guido van Rossum, Jeff Dean, Chris DiBona, Josh Bloch.

Registration is $50 fo students/teachers !

[ Sign up ] [ Google I/O