Recently I have been thinking about the industry standard technology certifications, particularly around Java/JEE technologies. I am not exactly sure how valuable the technology certifications are when you are already an experienced veteran in the industry. But I can guess that it will give an impression to your upper management to accommodate you for the… Continue reading My Thoughts On SCJP Java 6 Exam
Author: ashikuzzaman
Driven servant leader experienced in building robust and innovative team of software engineers, growing people along with business and technology. Twenty years of experience as Engineering Leader and Software Engineer in developing large scale distributed systems with specialization in Java, AWS, Microservices. A natural leader, easy to work with, and approachable excelling in motivating employees into top-performing teams.
Title Revision from Software Engineer to Senior Member of Technical Staff
Recently I got a title revision in Salesforce.com as a Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) although without any salary hike. When I joined Salesforce at November 5, 2007 I was assigned the title of Software Engineer. My grade was already high within the Software Engineer title holders at that time falling a little short… Continue reading Title Revision from Software Engineer to Senior Member of Technical Staff
Quillpad Made Bangla Typing Easier
Quillpad is a free online typing tool for 10 south asial languages. Yesterday I was having time free time in office so thought of searching for an API that helps writing bengali. And I landed in http://www.quillpad.in/bengali which is more than what I was looking for. It's very easy to type in Bengali in Quillpad.… Continue reading Quillpad Made Bangla Typing Easier
Amazon Kindle: A Great Gadget
This June 2009 is a special month for gadget lovers. Yesterday Amazon's Kindle DX was released and 18th of this month Apple's iPhone 3G S will be released. While I and my wife Shusmita already have our iPhone 3G, I am particularly in favor of Kindle to consider as the best gadget I can ever… Continue reading Amazon Kindle: A Great Gadget
Bowling with Friends
Last week I went to bowling with my friends in Fremont and we enjoyed it a lot. I paid on behalf of them for the game so that everyone else pay me back later. Despite their repeated query to know how much they should pay me, I was too busy the whole last week to… Continue reading Bowling with Friends
Spectrum and 5 Other Bangladeshi IT Companies are now CMMI Level 3 Certified
I got an email morning today that Spectrum Engineering Consortium Ltd. (SECL) has been awarded CMMI Level 3 certification recently. I was so happy to read it because I was part of the initial team in SECL that started this effort. It took long, hard 8 years but now they are here. It's a great… Continue reading Spectrum and 5 Other Bangladeshi IT Companies are now CMMI Level 3 Certified
Attended DreamForce 2008
As a Salesforce.com employee I got free pass to attend DreamForce 2008 which started today. I rushed into the BART to reach San Francisco Moscone Center early in the morning so that I don't miss Marc Benioff's keynote speech. Indeed he did an amazing speech in front of approx 10000 attendees in the huge Moscone… Continue reading Attended DreamForce 2008
Google’s Web Browser Chrome
I started using Google's new Web Browser Chrome since morning. It looks so good to me so far although I am not going to move away from Firefox pretty soon. First 2 things I noticed are that it doesn't have a toolbar other than the address bar (nothing like File, Edit etc) and the tabs look very good/clearly… Continue reading Google’s Web Browser Chrome
Today iPhone3G came out in the market
When I checked after lunch in San Francisco near my office in Embarcadero, all their iPhone3G were already sold out. I am not surprised because I know the stories when iPhone came out first time last year. As I will buy 2 iPhone3Gs this coming 1st August when my Verizon contract will finish, I took… Continue reading Today iPhone3G came out in the market
JMS
Background I, Nitol and Paul are 3 developers who worked at the early times of our career as java developers in a project named SPRINTRE in Bangladesh almost 6 years back. Coincidentally, we all 3 are now in USA. I and Nitol in California and are now neighbours and Paul just came to USA few… Continue reading JMS
Salesforce Google Apps Integration
One of the reason I like working in cutting edge technologies as "On-Demand" CRM in Salesforce.com... Last week, Tony Ruscoe found an interesting reference to Salesforce in a CSS file used by Google Apps. According to the company, "Salesforce.com is the worldwide leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) services. More companies trust their vital… Continue reading Salesforce Google Apps Integration
GTD: Getting Things Done
I have read some articles on it on and off last few months and tried a firefox extension of GTD for GMail without success. Today while thinking I have so many works in hand to do both personally and in office, I gave myself an hour's break to study a little more on GTD. Getting… Continue reading GTD: Getting Things Done
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