Dinukaa's Blog

NSBM DevOps Community is where I found my passion towards event organizing when I helped in organizing events as a volunteer and I joined to lead NSBM DevOps Community events for the year 2015 thanks to one of my colleagues ( Ravindu Pasan ).  The DevOps community was created by a group of computing students from National School of Business Management (NSBM) to sharpen the programming skills of the NSBM students to the level required by the industry’s leading software companies. You can find more about NSBM DevOps Community from here . I was a co-lead organizer for 7 events by NSBM DevOps Community and all of those events were a great experience for my life in many ways where I learnt many different things other than organizing workshops/ seminars to help students ( How to deal with people with different attitudes, How to make connections with people, How to balance volunteering with education, Email etiquettes and public speaking...etc).  The first ever session I co-...

Women Techmakers Sri Lanka organized ‘WTM Mapping the World’ on 10th July 2016 from 9.00 am - 1.00 pm for 4 hours with 56 women participants at 99X Technology . This was the third event I involved in organizing as a Women Techmakers lead with other co-leads. The registrations for the event started at 8.30 AM and event was started at 9.00 AM by welcoming the audience and giving a brief introduction on event agenda. ‘Google Mapmaker Community Sri Lanka’ conducted a hands-on mapmaker training session for two hours and there were a considerable amount of contributions to mapmaking when the mapmaking session ended. Some swags were distributed among participants according to the number of contributions they made to mapmaking throughout the session. The  Chief Operating Officer of 99X Technology (Ms.Shehani Senevirathne) did a one-hour session on ‘Women in Information Technology’ and also almost all the girls were inspired by the speech and there were many q...

Women Techmakers Sri Lanka held their first International Women’s Day celebration event with Google Developer Group (GDG) Sri Lanka on 12 th of March 2017 with 87 women participants from 9.30 am to 3.00 p.m. All the registered participants were women and the men on the floor were our invitees and GDG organizers only. This was my first ever experience as a Women Techmakers lead. We started our event at 9.30 am by Giving an Introduction about Women Techmakers and International Women's Day. The introductory session was ended by playing the greeting’ video sent us by Chelle Obligacion-Gray  who is a  Community Manager - APAC, Developer Ecosystem Team at   GooglAPAC.  Then we had a motivation speech by an invited female speaker (Ms.Oshana Dias, Vice President Human Resources at Brandix i3). Then it was time for an icebreaker which was to build an android bot. We asked them to form teams according to colour cards we gave them initially and provided all necessary ma...

Hey ! Today I'm going to share with you my experience of the OCJP exam.. Do you know what OCPJP or OCJP means ?  It means Oracle Certified Professional Java Programmer certification. Now a year has passed since I took the Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 6 Programmer exam.However, I thought I would share my experiences and hope this will be helpful for others who are going to take the exam. After doing my G.C.E. Advanced Level Examination and then searching for a higher educational path I decided to join to a Java Course. It really changed my life. At that time I chose to do Computer Science for my first degree at the National School of Business Management with University College Dublin. In there I realized that it would be better to do some extra certifications also. Since I was following a Java Course at the same time I thought I should go for OCJP  certification. Finally I scored 100% at exam ! I was very amused at that moment and I couldn't believe it.. it showed m...