The Notebook

Everything about me.

3/31/2005

Job Interview Experience Part 1

I'm gonna write about my working interview life since I have graduated from a university.

I have recalled this kinda experience because while I'm writing this journal I'm waiting for an appointment to interview a job. And I'm very curious about it because this job offers a chance to be trained in London for 3-6 months. That's a very good opportunity. But I may not be called because of asking for high salary rate and senior position.

Once I graduated, I applied to many companies both local and international which were SET, Settrade, AIS, UBC, Toyota, IBM, Freewill and Motif, in chronical order that I interviewed with.

I failed on most companies that I applied to except the last two.

For SET, I guessed I was too plain to capture an interest of interviewers on me.

For Settrade, I couldn't remember what happened. It was a lost piece of my memory.

For AIS, this job needed knowledge in network programming. I clearly knew I didn't have it. On an examination day, a tester asked me to write a VB application to send and receive a message between a client and a server. I spent all day to do this till late afternoon I still didn't finish it. This event is still clear in my head because it was my 21st birthday and I had a date with P'Nop; he waited for me all day at the lobby of Shinawatra building. He was very mad at me when I showed up in front of him. He's right I'd rather not let him wait like that. I couldn't remember the rest of that day but that was part of my 21st birthday and job interview at AIS.

For UBC, there was no an official announcement that it accepted me, but I talked to a contact person she said the company selected me but now the position that I applied for was not approved.
Huuh! Unlucky girl... later I knew I was a lucky girl.

For Toyota, I was too much expressed that I needed a job at UBC more than that at Toyota. As a result, he chose another candidate. This may be good or bad to me. I still don't know.

For IBM, I failed on final round because I guessed I showed that I was not confident in my English, and bad at answering questions.

For Freewill, this was a job interview that had most many interviewer, 5-6 persons. They liked me I could feel that. But at last, I denied this company and accepted Motif because Motif offered me higher salary.

For Motif, I was here for 2 years

3/30/2005

SOA Overview

A Revolution in Software Development Concepts
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A modular design
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a shortcoming occursin maintenance, when developers detect a flaw in one module they need to fix it through out an application copied it.

Classes and object-oriented software
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this solves code maintenance, but this creates complexity in software reuseability

Component software
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this solves functional reuseability but it doesn't answer to many current complex issues like distributed software, application integration, varying platforms, varying protocols, various devices, the Internet, etc.

SOA
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the answer results in SOA, your application integrate seamlessly.

Terms that play an essential role in SOA
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Service
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is an exposed piece of functionality with 3 properties1. The inferface contract to the service is platform-independent2. The service can be dynamically located and invoked3. The service is self-contained (it maintains its own state)

Message
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is information used to communicate between a service consumer and a service provider. It is an XML message.

Dynamic discovery
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is a service consumer uses a directory service to locate a service provided by a service provider
Web services
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web services are build on top of well-known and platform-independent protocols including HTTP, XML, UDDI, WSDL and SOAP.

Summary
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SOA with web services is the latest answer to the today software complexity issue.
Application integration is one of the major issues companies face today; SOA is the best scalable solution for application architecture.

The note is shorted from http://dev2dev.bea.com/technologies/soa/articles/soa_hashimi.jsp

3/11/2005

A Family Feast

A weekend has become a customary family holiday feast because my parents visit us every other week and gather all family members around the dinner table. Mom wakes up at 5 o'clock and prepares the breakfast for everyone. I have to wake up several minutes after my mom has waken up because she always make noisy sound of many opening and closing door.Why she does that? Now we (my sisters and I) are living in 20 square-meter apartment with a small balcony; we keep cooking utensils which she has to use inside the room. It's very comfortable for us to wake up, get dressed and reach the table with the healthful breakfast. Dad is the person who controls nutrition of the meal. Each meal has to contain all 5 necessary categories of elements; proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals.In the evening, we always end with an exquisite dinner, containing with seafood menus, desserts and fruits. My parents sometimes have cooked food for us to eat after they have left.

Unlikely poisonous animals

A touch to the hooded pitohui bird can cause numbness and tingling skin in people.
numbness = อาการชา
tingling skin = อาการของผิวหนังเหมือนกับถูกผึ้งต่อย
venomous = poisonous = neurotoxic
venom = poison = toxin
neuro- = ralating to nerve
The stonefish is one of the most vernomous vertebrate known. The poison is in its sharp dorsal spine.
dorsal = relating to the back of a fish or animal
a sharp dorsal spine. a dolphin's dorsal fin.
Platypuses (ตุ่นปากเป็ด) have a poisonous gland in their hind legs.
hind leg is a rear leg of an animal.
caterpillar = ดักแด้
respiratory = relating to breathing
The browntail moth caterpillar's hairs can cause human respritory problems and an irritating skin rash (อาการผื่นแดงบนผิวหนังเนื่องจากการระคายเคืองหรือแพ้).
barb คือส่วนของปลายตะขอหรือหัวลูกศรที่ทำให้ดึงออกยากเมื่อเหยื่อติด
The stingrays’ spines can inflict severe wounds, injecting venom from poison glands.
conspicuous thing = people can see or notice it very easily.
Some salamanders are brightly colored with conspicuous markings. This warns predators to stay away.
A shrew has poisonous saliva (น้ำลาย) to immobilize its prey.
pussycat = sweetie = kind and gentle person
amphibian (สัตว์ครึ่งบกครึ่งน้ำ)

3/02/2005

My 25th Birthday

Today is my birthday which is like an ordinary day except ...
I have gotten HBD messages from my friends, Golf832, Kiang, P'Nop, Chaew, Anon and Kik, and phone calls from Golf832 and P'Nop. Today I woke up and intended to keep ศีล 5. I am trying not to mad at people or any disapproved incidents and not to lie. I gave สังฆทาน at Wat Patum Wanaram. Then I went to work as usual. I picked up cake, a 2-pound White Chocolate Cheese Cake, for my Dad's birthday because this evening my parents have visited us and mom will cook. In the evening, I havve planned to watch the last episode of Ra-Biang-Ruk. Later, I will review SCWCD lessons and go to bed. And, my 25th birthday will have passed.

This year P'Nop didn't give me a pleasant on my birthday because he didn't know what to buy to me. Thus, he promised to take me to wherever I want to go on this Saturday and buy me a cactus. He thought I want to plant a cactus.