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Buffet Lunch at "Baton Rouge"
The newly joined employees at Jaxara arranged a Great Buffet Lunch Party at “Baton Rouge" located at Pink City (7th Floor), Gulshan 2 on Nov 9th 2012. The party is a traditional and wonderful way to know the newly joined members and celebrate their new life and journey at Jaxara family. All members of Jaxara attended the party and newly joined members have been given a warm welcome.
Jaxara Recruits New UI Designer
Farjana Islam has recently joined Jaxara as a UI Designer. She has more than 5 years of experience in web design & development.
First Training Session Held on Symfony
As a part of the GOAL 2012 program, a technical session took place on the 6th November, Tuesday by our Senior Software Engineer Mr. Mahbub E Elahi Ron on ‘Symfony’. This is first session on this topic. All the developers and QAEs from PHP team were present in the session. Participants also attended in Question & Answer session on their various issues related to site deployment. Following topics were discussed in the session:
- Symfony key concepts
o SoC, DI, MVC, Routing, ORM.
- Components, Bundles
- Know about documentations and communities.
- Hello World Demo!
o Installation, configuration.
o Create a helloWorldBundle!
o Use console, {generate}
o Primers: db connection, twig, doctrine
o Environments and debug tools (dev, staging, production)
There will be another 3 session on Symfony by this month.
A Training Session Held on Varnish
As a part of the GOAL 2012 program, a technical session took place on the 16th October, Tuesday by our Senior Software Engineer Mr. Mahbub E Elahi Ron on ‘Varnish’. This is his first session on this topic. All the developers and QAEs from PHP team were present in the session. Participants also attended in Question & Answer session on their various issues related to site deployment. Following topics were discussed in the session:
- Thorough understanding of Varnish.
- Understanding of how VCL works and how to use it.
- Know how varnish works with Drupal and Wordpress.
- Debug using varnish tools.
First Training Session Held on WordPress
As a part of the GOAL 2012 program, a technical session took place on the 10th October, Wednesday by our Senior Software Engineer Mr. Mohammad Sajjad Hossain on ‘WordPress’. This is his first session on this topic. All the developers and QAEs from PHP team were present in the session. Participants also attended in Question & Answer session on their various issues related to site deployment. Following topics were discussed in the session:
- Introduction
- Site setup and configuration
- Brief idea on WordPress Administration panel
- Theme development
We will have another session on WordPress Plugin Development, Security and data sanitization very soon.
Jaxara Recruits New Lead Software Engineer (Acting DM-PHP)
Mr. Tahsin Hasan has recently joined Jaxara as Acting Development Manager with 7 years of professional working experience in software companies in Bangladesh.
Jaxara Recruits New Software Engineer (SE)
Mr. Aftab Quraishi has recently joined Jaxara as a Software Engineer. He has over 8 years of industry experience.
Jaxara Recruits New Sr. Software Engineer (SSE)
Mr. Shoriful Islam has recently joined Jaxara as a Sr. Software Engineer with nearly 8 years of experience in software Industry.
Jaxara Recruits New Software Engineer (SE)
Md. Jahirul Islam has recently joined Jaxara as a Software Engineer. He has nearly four years of experience in software Industry.
Study tour by the student of CSE Dept from PSTU at Jaxara.
The students of CSE Department of The Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU) visited Jaxara on 4th October, Thursday. The purpose of the visit was to have an idea on the day-to-day activities and challenges of an off-shore Company. The tour lasted for about two hours. The Management of Jaxara gave orientation of existing processes of Jaxara, their expectations from the Educational institutions and shares their experiences to motivate the students to prepare for the IT industry in upcoming years.
The team consisted of thirty-five students of 4th year from CSE Dept. lead by Md. Kamal Hossain Chowdhury, Assistant Professor, CSE department, PSTU. The Speakers from Jaxara were –
- Mr. Monjurul Alam Mamun, Chief Technology Officer
- Sarder Mehede Dilder , Country Manager
- Ahammad Firoj , Development Manager, Dot Net
- Tanima Nasrin, Development Manager, PHP
- Shiblee Mehdi, Quality Assurance Manager
The session ends up with Question and answers session with light refreshment. The students walked around the Jaxara office and talked to the existing employees and their seniors from PSTU University at Jaxara.