Lets learn new technologies in IT field.

Lets learn new technologies in IT field.

World is changing day by day, new technologies come to the industry. As software engineer it is essential us to know about these things. We should always get updated by new trends.

Last week we had a session conducted by WSO2 which is one of the leading software companies in Sri Lanka. Madam Sarasi introduced mr. Srinath Perera who rendered us vast knowledge about new trends and technologies in the industry.

The speaker categorize the technology in to two groups as current technologies and emerging technologies.

Current technologies are

APIs
Analytics and AI
IoT
Bots

API - API stands for Application Programming Interface
   API is like a waiter in a restaurant. It acts as a mediator between the server and the client. It takes orders or requests.

Analytics and AI - Artificial Intelligence
   This enables computer driven decisions.

IoT - Internet of Things
   System of interrelated computer devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals and people that are provided with the unique identifiers.

Bots - Conversational Agents
  Automatically generate messages.

Facing an Interview

 Facing an Interview

In our last ppd session we had a nice experience. In there, we all faced to a small interview which was conducted by our own friends.

 We were asked to follow what we learnt from interview ppd sessions. We walked with confidence, kept a smile on our face, answered what our friends asked. At that moment we really thought about job positions about our strengths, weaknesses . So from that we realize what are the things that we want to improve as well as to do to show our strengths in an interview. In some occasions we forgot to keep eye contacts. Sometimes forgot to rearrange the chair when we got up. Forgot to say thank you. 

Most of us made simple mistakes during our interviews. May be it is because we have very little experience. In some cases, that was the first time in an interview. 

Experience gives us many things to learn and realize. So it is very much important to practice the procedure of an interview with a friend until you are confident.

                              Cakes....yummyyyy, A birthday? No

Can You cut a cake in to 8 pieces only with three cuts.

Miss. Sarasi has grouped our friends and has given a small piece of cake. Then she has asked above task. Only 1 minute has been given to do that. All the groups have imaginary  tried it in different ways. But only one group has won the task.

The way that has to do it is vertically cut the cake into 4 pieces using 2 cuts and one horizontal cut.

 We should think before dong somethings. In some cases we can have a trial. But some occasions we have to try at once. We must think creatively.