Abhinav Bindra won GOLD

India’s Abhinav Bindra won a gold in men’s 10-metre Air Rifle event in Beijing. Bindra shot 104.5 to take his total to 700.5 in the final. This is India’s first ever Olympic gold in any individual event and ninth in total.

In ten rounds, Bindra shot 10.7, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.5, 10.5, 10.6, 10.0, 10.2, 10.8 to clinch the first berth. China’s Qinan Zhu won silver while Finland’s Henri Hakkinen won bronze.

Bindra had shot a total of 596 out of 600, shooting a perfect 100 in 3 of the 6 rounds of the qualifiers. Bindra finished 4th to qualify 2 points behind Henri Hakkinen of Finland.

Abhinav Bindra won GOLD MEDAL

RailsConf 2008

May 29-June 1, 2008
Portland, Oregon

RailsConf is the official event for the growing Rails community.

OpenWebDeveloper Summit:NY

The inaugural Open Web Developer Summit (April 21-22, 2008) – devoted to Google APIs, open source and all things code, from Android to the YouTube Data API – is designed to help developers with learning how best to leverage the engineering muscle of Google in their own code, on their own web sites, and in their own businesses.

At the 2-day Summit, delegates will hear from leading developers and industry experts about the impact Google’s multifaceted initiatives are having on the world of Internet technologies today and on what the future is likely to bring from Google tomorrow. Technical sessions will explore a world of web development and application-building opportunities.

April 21-22, 2008 in New York City

In the Summit, sessions will feature topics like Google Gears, Google Mashup Editor, and Google Gadgets. They will include OpenSocial, the set of common APIs for building social applications across many websites, and GWT (used for building AJAX apps in Java). Speakers will also be looking at Android, the software stack for mobile devices including an operating system, middleware and key applications.