Showing posts with label Personal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Personal. Show all posts
I'm Back after some time.....
During last few days I was unable to do any blogging simply because I was too busy with my work at hSenid. I just started my first job at hSenid 1st of October and It was really wonderful. On the first day itself I was put in to a really challenging project. I had to learn lot of new technologies such as JSLEE, SMPP, JMS, JMX, AOP and so on...
I'd learnt lot of new things and I'll hopping to share with you all as I get some free time :)
I'd learnt lot of new things and I'll hopping to share with you all as I get some free time :)
7 Years of Excellence - Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa
The Faculty of Information Technology (FIT), University of Moratuwa which was established in year 2001 is the only faculty of its kind, producing pioneers to the ever growing IT industry in Sri Lanka. With the rapid growth and expansion of the information technology, FIT provides immense service to the nation by creating highly skilled IT professionals to bridge the gap between the demand and supply of IT personnel in the industry.
Despite the lack of adequate resources, both physical and human, the Faculty commenced its academic activities with a batch of 47 students in 2002. Its first home was a rented facility at Borella. The intake was increased to 100 in 2005 in response to the steadily increasing demand by the IT industry and also to provide more opportunities in this field to the talented youth of the country.
Though a fledgling faculty, FIT started its first postgraduate program in IT in 2004 with the PG Diploma/M.Sc. in Information Technology. In August 2008, the Faculty launched another postgraduate program, the PG Diploma/M. Sc in Artificial Intelligence (AI). This is the first postgraduate programs of this kind in Sri Lanka. The faculty also conducts several professional development programs from time to time. The FIT will continue to develop and expand its academic programs, adapting to the ever-changing needs of the IT industry to become an entity which both the students and the industry would look up to.
A landmark in the faculty's march towards progress is the completion of the first phase of a new state of the art building complex at the University of Moratuwa premises in August 2008. To celebrate this occasion and 7 years of excellence in the field of IT education, the Faculty will hold a series of events comprising of a multi religious ceremony, a symposium and a cricket tournament, followed by an exhibition of student innovations.
An academic conference on the theme "Graduation, Entrepreneurship and Success", will be held on 27th September 2008 at the new faculty premises with the participation students, alumni, members of the staff and industry representatives. Lead by a distinguished panel of resource persons, this conference is intended to provide students with the opportunity to experience through role models and success stories, how they can make a success of their careers in many different ways after graduation. The objectives of this symposium can be further elaborated as:
- To create a culture of entrepreneurship among the students.
- To learn through the experience of accomplished entrepreneurs.
- An opportunity for the students to interact with the industry leaders.
- To create better awareness among the corporate community about the Faculty of IT.
- To establish links with the industry to emphasize the value and recognition of the Faculty as a leading educational body.
- To broaden the knowledge of students on new trends in the IT industry
Among the distinguished resource persons at this event will be Mr.W.K.H Wegapitiya, CEO of Laugfs Holdings Limited, Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, Chairman & CEO of WSO2, Mr. Mohamed Azmeer, CEO of ConceptNursery, Mr. Ramesh Shanmuganathan, Group's Chief Information Officer, John Keels Holdings, Mr. Harsha Purasinghe, CEO of Microimage (Pvt) Ltd and Peter De Almeida, CEO of e-nable (Pvt) Ltd.
The event will conclude with a get-together at which all students past and present, will come together to celebrate the inauguration of the Faculty's new home. They will be joined by the industry representatives to create an enthralling atmosphere of celebration and entertainment.
End of a Beginning....
It seems yesterday that I first walked into the university, yet 4 and 1/2 years have passed. Exams of my final semester at university finished yesterday :)
It was a wonderful 4 1/2 years at FIT. I take this moment to Thank all academic, non-academic staff and my batch mates at Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa for guidance and support they gave me during all these years.
Next step of my journey begins 1st of October as a Software Engineer at hSenid....
MySQL taking long time to connect
Today I experienced strange issue with MySQL server which I'm using to developing and testing applications. Today it took unbelievably long time to connect. When I try to connect to the server using, do not connect and after long time it gave an irrelevant error.
I searched the net to find what could be the issue, and found this which is somewhat similar to my issue. But I couldn't fix the issue :(. Finally I uninstall MySQL and reinstall it. Haa... it works properly :D.
Ok, reinstalling may not be the best way to it, their may be some work around for this issue. If you know something about this issue please be kind enough to share it with me. :))
Imagine Cup 2008 Launch at University of Moratuwa
Yesterday 12th December we had a grand event at the university for the launch of the Imagine Cup 2008 competition. Event was organized by the Microsoft Student Champs community at the Faculty of Information Technology.
Event was not only about the Imagine Cup, there was the launch of the sourceFEED - which is the new online resource center developed by student champs. SourceFEED was a long requested thing by the faculty students, it provided access to lot of online learning material and Microsoft latest software products that the faculty get through MSDNAA. Launch of the sourceFEED was done by the university vice chancellor.
After the launch of the sourceFEED we had the launch of the Imagine Cup 2008. This is the 4th time that IC is happening in Sri Lanka. During last 3 years the competition was won by students from FIT. This year also our students are ready to give a big challenge to other IT institutes around the county to bring the cup for the 4th consecutive time.
We had a introductory presentation about the IC 2008 by Wela, who is the Microsoft Developer Evangelist. And then we had 2 brief technical sessions on building WPF applications and another one on Silvelight applications. I did the presentation on building WPF applications using VS2008 and Expression Blend. It was a very introductory session about WPF, XAML and Blend. You can view the presentation I did here in Google presentations. Wela did the presentation on Silverlight.
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Back to the University
Tomorrow(19th Nov) our new academic semester begins. It will be the start of my 4th year at the university. Two months of vacation seems to be vanished. Two months of vacation was very nice one. I managed to learn lots of new things during that time, and spend lot of time with my family.
Now I'm doing the IT special degree so next few months will be very busy. Road ahead will be more difficult but will be very exciting. I'm hopping to do well in this semester.
I'm Back...
It has been more than 1 1/2 months since I've done my previous post. It has been very tough time for me with all of the academic activities in the university. Last semester was the toughest semester yet. Had to complete back to back assignments without break ant then had to prepare for the exam. Now it’s all finished.
With this exam our general degree finishes. But I’m planning to do the special as well, so I’ve another year to go before finishing. There is going to be two months break before start of 4th year. So I can have little bit of break and do few more blog posts :)
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FIT wins Imagine Cup again.....
This time it was team "SARA" presenting the Application "ISECED", who did the magic for our faculty. And again it was the same wining combination as last 2 yeas, one girl and 3 guys;"Ruwindi", "Sanju","Amila", and "Anurudha".
They will fly to S.Korea to participate for the Imagine Cup 2007 global competition soon.Good luck team and congratulations.
There is more good news, in addition to the championship FIT won the 2nd runners up as well. That was team Team "Sanhitha" presenting the application "Irrdhipada" who did that.
Congratulations to them as well.And also there was one more team team from Faculty of Information Technology who participated for this year finals, team "Rawana" presenting the application "Virtual Desk". Even though they couldn't make it to the top 3 teams they also gave a good fight and there application was wonderful.
Congregational to Rawana as well.
Good Bye Navantis.....
Last week I said good bye to Navantis.
It was a very difficult decision to be made, but I had to do that since I have to put my full effort for my academics. My nine month experience at Navantis was great. I learn a lot during my internship and part time period.
I'd like to thank all my colleagues at Navantis who helped me a lot during last nine months. Especially CEO Indaka, Duneel and Irzana.
Navantis Avurudu Festival
Navantis had organized a wonderful New Year festival last Sunday (8th April) at Brows Beach Hotel Negambo. It was wonderful event. Almost all of the employees and their family members participated for this event.
Festival started with a traditional breakfast which included Kevum(Oil Cakes) and Kiribath(Milk Rice). We had lots of game on that day. I participated for Goni Race(Sack Race) and Kaba Adeema(Tag-o-War). It was very enjoyable day.
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End of the Internship period
For last 6 months I was working as an intern at Navantis IT (Pvt.)
When I first came here I had considerable knowledge about .Net and ASP, but I was mainly using the nice GUI of VS2005 to do all the designs. But the project I was put in to at Navantis required to all the web controls as Custom server controls. We have to cut code for every thing, No drag and drops... At the beginning it was difficult but after creating few custom controls it became much easier. Because of that I learned a lot about C# and .Net controls.
We had a excellent team at Navantis. Everybody was very friendly and helpful. I have to thank everyone at Navantis for all support given. Our next semester (Level3 Semester2) is gong to be staring in mid April, that’s two more months. Till then I'm doing part time at Navantis, 3 days per week. I'm planning to spend other time on Patrick’s Project. And I have to prepare a report about our internship as well.
So I guess there won't be any spare time to relax.
Faculty Trip - 2007
But unfortunately because of the heavy rain we couldn’t visit some places that we planned, heavy rain foiled every thing. We were planning to have a mountain hiking at Knuckles and visit tow beautiful waterfalls.
Road to Knuckles mountain park is very difficult. Specially with large university buses. It was very difficult to drive on that road. In one place one of the buses get stuck in a bend.
On that day we were able to visit "Pitawala Pathana", a high plain and "Punchi Lokanthaya", small Worlds End. Both were covered by heavy mist, we couldn’t see more than few feet. So obviously we couldn’t see any thing at "Punchi Lokanthatya".
Next day (Saturday), as it was on Friday heavy rain foiled every thing. We have to cancel mountain hiking at Knuckels and we continue our trip to Wasgamuwa national park. We were able see quite a few wild life there. Peacock, verities of cranes, Dears, Foxes, monkeys and an Elephant. Near Mahaweli river we were caught in heavy rain again.
Finally we went to visit "Sorabora Wewa", master peice of anciant Sri Lankan irrigation technology. We spent nearly 1 1/2 hours at "Sorabora Wewa".
Then It was time to go home. Return trip took very long time. So when I came home it was around 4am in the morning.
This trip was not as fun as our Batch trip to Sinharaja. But any way we all had a very good time together. And it was a very good occasion to get away from the office life.
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