Highlights

PPSL (Pvt) Ltd which was happy about the Java Enterprise Edition Training  wanted the  Software Patterns Training for their developers. The training was conducted on four half days from 29th of January to 01st of February, 2008.

A membership day of ISACA Sri Lanka Chapter (Information Systems Audit And Control Association) was held on 18th January, 2008 at Hotel Taj Samudra, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Due to absence of a speaker, one of the planned two presentations was canceled and Kamal delivered an extended version of his talk on "Introduction To IT Governance And Enterprise Architecture".

Kamal was invited to deliver the Information Technology opening lecture of the Master of Public Management (MPM) postgraduate course at SLIDA (Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration).

About 150 government officers from around the country were present in two batches on 9th of December and 13th of December, 2007. Each lecture went for 5 hours on each day.

SLIDA (Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration) in collaboration with ICTA (Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka) is behind a project to automate the vehicle revenue license issuing process to the next level.

A 4 day advance Java Standard Edition (version 1.6) Training started today (November 04, 2007) at Epic Lanka Technologies (Pvt) Ltd. The training is being attended by 11 software development professionals.

Upon completion of this training, the 10 day Java Enterprise Editing (version 5) Training will start. To follow is the second batch.

Software View started conducting a customized Software Patterns Training for Symbol Technologies Lanka (Pvt) Ltd today (October 30th, 2007) attended by 20 engineers in the first batch. Symbol is a Motorola owned company mostly into Research and Development in Sri Lanka.

A three week long customized Java Enterprise Edition training started at Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration (SLIDA) today (October 22nd, 2007). The training is being coordinated by Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA).

The customized training includes NetBeans IDE, Java Enterprise Edition 5, Spring, Hibernate, JSF, JFC/Swing, JRules and Web Services.

Software View conducted a customized Java Enterprise Edition training for PPSL (Pvt) Ltd from 18th of September to 12th of October, 2007. The training focused on the development of Web applications with JavaServer Faces and also covered persistence with Hibernate and the great Spring framework (Dependency Injection, Aspect Oriented Programming, Transaction Management).

PPSL (Pvt) Ltd provides off-shore software solutions to their clients in the United Kingdom.

One of the blog entries Kamal wrote some time back was selected as the "Brain Trust" of Linux Journal Weekly Newsletter in its August 01, 2007 issue.

The interesting write up was about making music with the computer keyboard without using any external peripheral. By following a very minimal number of steps, the write up highlighted installing and running freely available software (vkeybd - a virtual keyboard, timidity - software synthesizer) to play a large number of musical instruments (in fact, no limits to the number).

The 8 day Java EE 5 training program conducted at the Information Technology Center, University of Peradeniya came to the end on 1st of July, 2007.

The training was delivered during four weekends. Among the participants were university staff members from multiple faculties (from multiple universities), an engineering student and engineers from Ceylon Electricity Board.