Kerala Google Technology User Group activities kicked off by the mega launch event at Technopark Trivandrum. we got 125 members for the launch event.  Techies from different IT companies in and outside Technopark, students and tech entrepreneurs were among the participants.  The event started by Sreejumon by introducing and explaining the objectives and the proposed activities of Kerala GTUG. There were four technical sessions on Google technologies by Anash Oommen, a Developer Programs Engineer from Google, Hyderabad; Praseed Pai, a .net Consultant and Solutions Architect from Kochi; Rajesh Varghese, a Software Engineer at Software Incubator, Trivandrum and Sreejumon who is an Architect with Nokia Bangalore. More details at GTUG site.

We have formed a new user group in Kerala named Kerala Google Technology User Group

Our idea is to learn and share technologies from Google, and build a strong Google user community in Kerala. Some of the key areas we are thinking currently (Google will definitely come up with something soon ) are given below.

• Google Ajax APIs – maps, search, visualization, gadgets
• Google Friend Connect and Open Social
• Android – mobile development
• Google App Engine – scalable cloud computing
• Google Web Toolkit – web development platform
• Project Hosting
• Analytics and AdSense – advertising and web analytics
• Google Wave – real-time collaboration and communication
• Google Chrome OS
• ….

More details can be located here in http://www.kerala-gtug.org/

I am here in Helsinki (Finland) now and just thought of checking the Detroit time by changing the windows date time control’s Time Zone. I was having the gmail login page in the background with size information - “Over 5090.355697 megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you’ll never need to delete another message”.

I thought of playing a bit on the calender control and noticed that the gmail mailbox counter is varying based on the system date. After checking the java script source, I realized that gmail script is dependent on the local system date. Hence thought of projecting the mailbox size for next 35 years. Unfortunately the script failed after 2038, it shows the size less than 5 MB. Hope google will correct the script by that time. Here is the projection of mailbox size.

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