Thoughts of Freedom

Every session of PPD brought its share of fun and knowledge to us. But back in 2 years how many of us could have imagined that the word “PPD” would influence us to this extent. So, this article is to have a look back in what we learned from PPD. As I remember 2 years ago without a big hesitation I started to learn PPD. “Personal Progress Development” according to me was a useless subject those days. But after attending 2 or 3 sessions I started to love it. I tried to find the interest on it. I started to like this more than many other boring lectures we had. It did not take me much time to realize that developing inner skills is important as much as having academic skills to build my career.  PPD was a great platform to develop my soft skills. Among the many things I learnt so far from PPD, it has taught us to, how to perfectly manage our time how to work as team how to be a good leader how to negotiate with others how to manage thing in stressful times ...

The Journey begins here!!! This was an amazing training program that I have ever participated. It was at Naval and Maritime Academy shortly named as NMA. NMA plays the most prominent role by imparting professional training for both Officers and Senior / Junior ratings in Sri Lanka Navy (SLN). The Academy is situated within the picturesque Naval Dockyard, Trincomalee. Therefore, it was quite a long journey and we got the chance to spend two days there. Day 1 We reached the camp there around 10 a.m. and after welcoming us we were offered a delicious lunch. After the lunch, we were divided into groups, "Alpha", "Bravo", "Delta" and "Charlie". They have planned several activities for us. First one was to go through a small rectangle made with ropes. But the catch is if we touch the rope then we die and any one holding you at that time also dies. We had to have a good strategic plan as to how to go through the rectangle and ev...

Today’s session was conducted by hSenid mobile solutions, which is a globally recognized company i n providing dynamic Telco grade platforms converging Telco APIs, analytics and signalling for telecommunication companies and enterprise markets. Thankfully to hSenid we learned about the new trends in software industry. To give this opportunity hSenid HR came and he did a great lecture about this. The upcoming trend “Communication with pets” came a long way after the communication among people, Communication with hardware and Hardware to hardware communication. Followings are the latest trends in software engineering. Automotive Obviously, we will see the launch of many more self-driving cars, but we will also see the entire connected car system become “smart.” Expect your car to predict the failure of a part and suggest some convenient times for you to go the mechanic, who will have the replacement part ready for you! Artificial Intelligence This technolog...